Course details

Advanced computer architectures

ARP Acad. year 2003/2004 Winter semester 6 credits

Current academic year

The course covers architecture of processors and parallel systems. Instruction- and thread-level parallelism (ILP, TLP) is studied on scalar, superscalar, VLIW and multithreaded processors. Next, in the context of process-level parallelismus, the most frequently used bus-based symmetric multiprocessors are dealt with. Then the treatment of interconnection networks follows, as a base of systems with a distributed shared memory (NUMA) and of multicomputers with local memories, especially popular clusters of workstations and massively parallel systems. The last part is devoted to parallel vector processors and SIMD-style processing (data parallelism).

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Guarantor

Dvořák Václav, prof. Ing., DrSc.

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

Department

Faculty of Information Technology (FIT)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Overview of processor microarchitecture and its future trends, principles of parallel system design and interconnection networks, ability to estimate performance of parallel applications.

Learning objectives

To familiarize students with architecture of the newest processors exploiting the instruction-level parallelism and its impact on a compiler design. To make them understand features of parallel systems which make use of functional parallelism at a process- or thread-level and also data parallelism.

Study literature

  • Dvořák, V., Drábek, V.: Architektura procesorů. VUTIUM, Brno, 1999, 330 s., ISBN 80-214-1458-8. 
  • Dvořák, V.: Architektura a programování paralelních systémů. Skriptum FIT VUT v Brně, 2004, 170 s., ISBN 80-214-2608-X.  

Fundamental literature

  • Culler, D.E. et al.: Parallel Computer Architecture. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999, 1025 s., ISBN 1-55860-343-3. 
  • Hennessy, J.L., Patterson, D.A.: Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach. 3. vydání, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc., 2003, 1136 p., ISBN 1-55860-596-7.  

Progress assessment

Assessment of four small projects, a midterm examination.

Course inclusion in study plans

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