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Advanced Computer Architecture


Name: Advanced Computer Architecture
Type: Lecture
Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Ernst, Anika Christmann, Dominik Stöhrmann
Term: Winter term
Date: WS 2022/23, Start: 28.10.2021
Freitag, Vorlesung 09:45 - 11:15 Uhr (HS66.1111)
Freitag, Übung 11:30 - 12:15 Uhr (HS66.1111)
Semester hours: 2+1
Examination type: oral
StudIP Link: https://studip.tu-braunschweig.de/...

ACA - News

This winter term, Advanced Computer Architecture will be offered as classroom course, both lecture and exercises. The course will start on Friday 28.10.2022 from 9:45 am - 11:15 am in room HS66.1111, followed by the first exercise. The course, exercise, and all material will be in English. For your convenience, videos in German language are available, as well.

In order to get access to the materials, it is necessary to register for the lecture in StudIP.
Attention: The registration will be closed on 16. November 2022!

If you have any problems registering in StudIP, please let us know christmann(at)ida.ing.tu-bs.de

 


Kick-Off

Kick-off will be on Friday 28.10.2022 at 09:45am in room HS66.1111.


Materials

You will find the recordings for self-study and other lecture materials under Lecture Materials.

The page is password protected .

Please enter the username and password you have received into the login window (top right).

The access data will be sent by email after registration on StudIP before the start of the lecture period.
The slides in videos may differ from the current ones.


Lecture Content

The lecture presents mechanisms of current processor architectures, based on the foundations offered in the lecture Computer Architecture 1.

Lectures and material are in English language. Videos in German language are available.

Topics covered:

  •     Instruction level parallelism
    •   Superscalar architectures, vector and graphics processors (GP-GPUs)
  •     Thread level parallelsim
    •  Multithreading
    •  Programming models
  •     Multiprocessors
    • Organizational Principles
    • Cache Coherence
  •  Hardware mechanisms for scheduling and communication
    • Synchronization, Transactional Memory, ...
  • Communication in multiprocessors
    • Principles, Topologies, Protocols, On-Chip Networks
  • Domain specific architectures
    • Principles, Architectures for machine learning

  

Scheduling

Date Time Type Content Moderator
Friday
28.10.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Kickoff + Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 1: Instruction Level Paralellism Christmann
Friday
04.11.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 2: Multi-Threading Stöhrmann
Friday
11.11.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 3: Vector Processing + GPGPUs Stöhrmann
Friday
18.11.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 4: Cache and Coherence I Abel
Friday
25.11.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 5: OpenMP Stöhrmann
Friday
02.11.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 6: Cache and Coherence II Christmann
Friday
09.12.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 7: Consistency and Synchronization Christmann
Friday
16.12.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 8: Transactional Memory Christmann
Friday
23.12.2022
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
- Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm - Christmann
Friday
13.01.2023
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 9: Interconnection Networks - Teil 1 Christmann
Friday
20.01.2023
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 10: Interconnection Networks - Teil 2 Stöhrmann
Friday
27.01.2023
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm   Christmann
Friday
03.02.2023
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 11: Domain Specific Architectures Christmann
Friday
10.02.2023
09:45am - 11:15am In-Person
Room HS 66 1111
Lecture Prof. Ernst
11:30am - 12:15pm Exercise 12: Repetition Christmann

Contact

Institute of Computer and Network Engineering
Hans-Sommer-Street 66
38106 Braunschweig
Phone: +49 (0)531 391-3734
Fax: +49 (0)531 391-4587

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