Computer Architecture

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

An introduction to computer architecture and how to evaluate the performance of workloads running on processor architectures. Topics include statically and dynamically scheduling instructions in a processor pipeline; speculative execution through branch prediction; hardware cache organizations, their policies, and prefetching; multi-core processors, cache coherence, and synchronization primitives. Additional topics may include other relevant architectures, such as GPUs or domain specific accelerators.