Advanced Computer Architecture

Name	Advanced Computer Architecture
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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