Course Outline

The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:

Introduction and technology Trends

Power, Dependability, and Performance

No Tuesday Lecture

cache: part 1 2.1-2.3 in PH6E + class notes fo rthe introduction part

Cache Optimization and performance Appendix B.2 and B.3

Quiz 1 (Thursday) Covers Chapter 1

Slides for Virtual memory

Introduction to DRAM

Midterm (Thursday)

midterm sections to cover (in addition to the above sections) B.2, B.4 and the slides

Continue wirg DRAM

Start in Instruction level parallelism Introduction and branch prediction here

Correlating predictors here

hardware based ILP Dynamic Scheduling

Example on Tomasulu's Algorithm

Quiz 2 (Thursday

Introduction to SIMD

more SIMD

GPU

Quiz 3

cachr Coherence