Course Catalog 2009-2010 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Fabio Garzia

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 4, 5 : Thursday 10 - 12, TB223 Per 5 : Friday 12 - 14, TB223

Requirements

Final exam.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

To provide deeper knowledge of computer and microprocessor architectures, especially parallel architectures.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Media processors and multimedia support in instruction sets. Superscalar processors.
2.	Dynamic use of parallelism. Tomasulo algorithm, branch prediction, conditional execution. Instruction-level parallelism and its limitations.	Superscalar processors, speculative execution. Utilization of parallelism in software.
3.	VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) and EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction) architectures and their compiler support. Static and compiler-assisted parallelism. Parallelism in embedded systems.
4.	Enhancing cache memory performance. Parallel memory architectures.	Memory hierarchy design.
5.	Multiprocessor architectures and thread-level parallelism. Communication and synchronization between processors and processes. Interconnections and clustering.	Performance analysis of I/O systems. Multiprocessor systems cache coherence.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Computer architecture: a quantitative approach	Hennessy, Pattersson			Morgan-Kauffman, 3rd or 4th edition		English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1			Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	05.05.2009
Modifier	Olli Vainio