Advanced Computer Architecture

Graduate

Current developments in computer architecture covering advanced concepts in sequential and parallel architectures. Topics include memory hierarchy, homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, shared-memory (SMP and DSM) and distributed-memory machines (Beowulf cluster to high-end parallel machines), dataflow and multi-threaded architectures, ILP and VLIW, pipelining, and vector machines. Systolic arrays and application/language specific architectures. Networks. Programming models for parallel machines. Programming for performance on different architectures.