Advanced Computer Architecture (optional core for systems specialisation)

Timings: Tu: 9-10AM, We: 11AM-1PM

Teaching Assistant: Srinivas Siddani

Evaluation Criteria

• Internal : 40 marks
• Minor : Best of two minors - 10 marks
• Assignments : 30 marks
• Major : 60 marks

ASSIGNMENTS

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Last Assignment

Interesting Related Links

• Intel's Latest Haswell-EP processor architecture
• Memory Consistency Models (mine from Tanenbaum and Steen)
• Branch Prediction Slides (with AMD processors as examples)
• Control Hazards
• Memory Consistency Models from CMU -- a really good one :)
• Memory Consistency Models from Duke Univ.(a good one)
• Memory Consistency Models
• Dynamic Scheduling with Speculation slides
• Pipelining slides from UPenn
• Pipelining slides from Stanford
• Cache Coherence and Atomic Operations in Hardware
• Consistency Models slides
• Instruction Encoding Slides
• Valgrind Publications
• Performance Analysis Tools for Linux Developers - Part 1
• Performance Analysis Tools for Linux Developers - Part 2
• Intel Performance Counter Monitor - A better way to measure CPU utilization
• Linux Kernel likely and unlikely FAQ
• Branch Predictor Slides