Course Catalog 2008-2009 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Fabio Garzia, Jari Nurmi

Implementations

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

Requirements

Written exam

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

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.
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 and EPIC 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

More precise information per implementation

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

Last modified	09.12.2008
Modifier	Fabio Garzia