CSCI 6461 Section 12 Spring 2025

CRN 26451

Course Outline and Schedule

Date

Topic

References

1/16

Introduction

• Administrative topics
• Basic Concepts and History
• Class Project Discussion

For Next Week

1. At break and end of class meet with other team members
   
2. Review course material and develop questions
3. If a warm up is assigned be sure to take it.
   

Lecture 0 Administrative

Class Project   Class Project Instruction Set Architecture

Project Grading Rubric

Term Paper Sample Topics   

Lecture 1 Basic Concepts

Part 1 and Front Panel Video

1/23

Lecture 2 Basic System Design

1/30

Appendix K Survey of Instruction Set Architectures

Lecture 3 Instruction Set Architecture

2/06

Memory System Design:

• Multilevel memory
• Basic cache structure and design
• Cache performance
• Replacement policies

H&P Chapter 2, Appendix B (internal to Book)

Lecture 4  Memory System Design

2/13

Lecture 6 I/O Systems

2/20

Improving Performance

Pipelining,

General Considerations,

Instruction and Arithmetic Pipelines with examples

*Project Part 1 Due Midnight 2/22

H&P 3, Appendix A, Appendix H

Lecture 7 Performance Improvements

MIPS Overview
Pipelining
Dependencies
Compiler Techniques
More Static Technique

Improving Performance

Pipelining,
General Considerations,

Tomasulo Worksheet

Lecture 8 Instruction Level Parallelism

Branch Prediction
Dynamic Scheduling

Hardware Speculation

3/06

*Project Part 2 Due Midnight  3/08

H&P 4.2, 4.3 Appendix G                 

Lecture 9 Vector Operations

3/13

Spring Break

3/20

High Performance Computing

Appendix F

Lecture 10 High Performance Computing - Multiprocessors

Interconnect Video (view at 20 minutes into video)

Link to supplemental files

3/27

Multiprocessors

Term Paper Due Midnight 3/29

H&P Chapter 4,  Appendix I

Lecture 11 Multiprocessors

Cache Coherency Snooping Protocol

Cache Coherency Directory Protocol

Link to supplemental files

4/03

Multi core Architectures

*Project Part 3 Due Midnight 4/6

Lecture 12 Multi core Architectures

GPU Architectures

H&P Chapter 4

Lecture 13 GPU Architectures

GPU Video

Link to supplemental files

4/24

4/28

Last Day of Classes

*All work  due by 11:59 pm