Advanced Computer Architecture

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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