CSc I4200 Computer Architecture
Quantitative principles of computer design. Instruction -level parallelism (ILP).Exploiting ILP using Dynamic Scheduling, multiple issue, and speculation. Issues in thread-level parallelism using ILP. Multiprocessors and thread-level parallelism. Symmetric shared memory architectures. Distributed shared memory multiprocessors. Memory hierarchy design. Virtual machines. Advanced topics in storage systems.
Contact Hours
3 hr./wk.