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ECE 511 - Computer Architecture

Last offered Spring 2024

Official Description

Advanced concepts in computer architecture: design, management, and modeling of memory hierarchies; stack-oriented processors; associative processors; pipelined computers; and multiple processor systems. Emphasis on hardware alternatives in detail and their relation to system performance and cost. Course Information: Same as CSE 521. Prerequisite: ECE 411 or CS 433.

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Subject Area

  • Hardware Systems

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Description

Advanced concepts in computer architecture; design, management, and modeling of memory hierarchies, stack-oriented processors, associative processors, pipelined computers, and multiple processor systems; and focuses on hardware alternatives in detail and their relation to system performance/cost.

Notes

Same as CSE 521.

Topics

  • Processor design: memory hierarchy; bus, cache, and shared memory; disk arrays, pipelining and superscalar techniques; reducing branch penalties; multivector computers
  • Parallel array processors: SIMD computers; interconnection networks; systolic arrays
  • Multiprocessors: program and network properties; scalability issues; performance evaluation; caches and consistency issues; parallel programming and compilers; scheduling algorithms
  • Distributed-memory multicomputers: architecture; distributed shared memory; routing and network design issues; load balancing/data mapping algorithms; performance evaluation and visualization; design of parallel algorithms; scalable, multithreaded, and dataflow architectures; applications
  • Distributed processing: distributed operating system; load balancing algorithms

Detailed Description and Outline

Topics:

  • Processor design: memory hierarchy; bus, cache, and shared memory; disk arrays, pipelining and superscalar techniques; reducing branch penalties; multivector computers
  • Parallel array processors: SIMD computers; interconnection networks; systolic arrays
  • Multiprocessors: program and network properties; scalability issues; performance evaluation; caches and consistency issues; parallel programming and compilers; scheduling algorithms
  • Distributed-memory multicomputers: architecture; distributed shared memory; routing and network design issues; load balancing/data mapping algorithms; performance evaluation and visualization; design of parallel algorithms; scalable, multithreaded, and dataflow architectures; applications
  • Distributed processing: distributed operating system; load balancing algorithms

Same as CSE 521.

Texts

K. Hwang, Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993.

Journal and conference articles from current literature.
TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
ONL0 -    
Computer ArchitectureA69417DIS41400 - 1520 T R  2015 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg Jian Huang
Junhao Pan
Computer ArchitectureOND76150OD41400 - 1520 T R    Jian Huang