CS 509 Advanced Computer Architecture

This course is a study of advanced topics in computer architecture including micro and parallel architectures, instruction-level parallelism, memory hierarchy, shared-memory multiprocessors, interconnection networks, and clusters. The course will review basic pipelining techniques and memory hierarchies. The course will go into the details of advanced techniques including vector processors and graphical processing units, multiple issue and out-of­-order execution, branch prediction, and superscalar and multicore architectures. The course will include discussion of parallel processing systems and their organization, covering topics such as symmetric multiprocessors, interconnection networks, cache coherence, multithreading, nonuniform memory access, and clusters. Finally, the course will provide an overview of advanced computer architecture research including non von Neumann architectures, optical computing approaches, neural networks, heterogenous architectures, and quantum computing techniques, amongst others.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CS 409 or permission of instructor