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Term
and
Course Credit: Spring 2010, 3 credit hours
Time
and
Place: Lecture: MW 5:30 PM - 6:50 PM, Room 239
Instructor:
Dr. Aleksandar
Milenkovic
Email: milenka
Office: 217-L
Phone: (256) 824 6830
Office Hours: M: 1:00-2:00 PM and W: 4:00-5:00
PM
Class
Web
page: http://www.ece.uah.edu/~milenka/cpe631-10S
Description
This course surveys architecture and organization of modern computing
systems including: CPU design, instruction sets, memory hierarchy,
pipelined machines, and multiprocessors. The emphasis is on
the major component subsystems of high performance computers:
pipelining, instruction level parallelism, thread-level parallelism,
memory hierarchies,
input/output, and network-oriented interconnections. The
course introduces techniques and tools for quantitative analysis and
evaluation of modern computing systems and their components.
Text
Book
J. L. Hennessy and D. A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A
Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishing Co., Menlo Park, CA. 2006. ISBN:
978-0-12-370490-0, ISBN10: 0-12-370490-1
http://textbooks.elsevier.com/0123704901
References
o Joseph A. Fisher, Paolo Faraboschi, Cliff Young,
Embedded Computing A VLIW Approach to Architecture, Compilers and
Tools,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishing Co., Menlo Park, CA. 2004. ISBN:
978-1-55860-766-8, ISBN10: 1-55860-766-8.
o Dezso Sima, Terence Fountain, Peter Kacsuk,
Advanced Computer Architectures: A Design Space Approach,
Addison-Wesley, 1998. ISBN: 0-201-42291-3.
Prerequisites:
CPE 512 Parallel Programming, CPE
431 / CPE 531 Introduction to Computer Architecture, or equivalent
courses
Academic
Misconduct
Academic Honesty.
Your written assignments and examinations must be your own
work.
Academic Misconduct will not be tolerated. To insure that you
are
aware of what is considered academic misconduct, you should review
carefully the definition and examples provided in Article III. Code of
Student Conduct, Student Handbook, p. 93. If you have questions in this
regard, please contact me without delay.
Use of
Prior
Work.
You may not submit in fulfillment of requirements in this course any
work submitted, presented, or used by you in any other course.
Consent
to Use
of
Turnitin.com. UAH is committed to the
fundamental values
of preserving academic honesty as defined in the Student Handbook
(7.III.A, Code of Student Conduct). The instructor reserves
the
right to utilize electronic means to help prevent plagiarism.
Students agree that by taking this course all assignments are subject
to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com.
Assignments submitted to Turnitin.com will be included as source
documents in Turnitin.com’s restricted access database solely
for the
purpose of detecting plagiarism in such documents. The terms
that
apply to the University’s use of the Turnitin.com service, as
well as
additional information about the company, are described at www.
uah.edu/library/turnitin.
Classroom
Conduct. All students in the class
must treat
others with civility and respect and conduct themselves during class
sessions in a way that does not unreasonably interfere with the
opportunity of other students to learn. Failure to comply with this
requirement may result in points being deducted from a
student’s final
numerical average, up to a maximum of 15 points.
Copyright
Aleksandar Milenkovic 2010. All
federal and
state copyrights in my lectures and course materials are reserved by
me. You are authorized to take notes in class for your own
personal use and for no other purpose. You are not authorized to record
my lectures or to make any commercial use of them or to provide them to
anyone else other than students currently enrolled in this course,
without my prior written permission. In addition to legal
sanctions for violations of copyright law, students found in violation
of these prohibitions may be subject to University disciplinary action
under the Code of student Conduct.
Important
Dates
Project Proposals – February 24, 2010 (Wedensday)
Midterm Exam – March 1, 2010
(Monday) @ 5:30 – 6:50
Final Project Due – May 03, 2010 (Monday) @ 6:00 PM
Final Exam – May 03,
2010 (Monday) @ (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM)
Grading
Policy
Final course grades will be determined in the manner outlined below:
Components
|
%
of Final Grade
|
Homeworks
|
20%
|
Midterm
|
20%
|
Project
|
35%
|
Final
|
25%
|
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Tentative
Syllabus
1. Fundamentals of Computer Design (Chapter 1)
2. Review: Pipelining Basic and Intermediate Concepts (Appendix A)
3. Memory Hierarchy (Appendix C, Chapter 5)
4. Inside Processors
Instruction Set Principles (Appendix B)
Instruction Level Parallelism and Its
Exploitation (Chapter 2)
Limits on Instruction-Level Parallelism
(Chapter 3)
5. Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism (Chapter 4)
6. Storage (Chapter 6)
7. Networks (Apendix E), if time
I reserve the
right to
change the above schedule based upon the needs of the course.
Lecture Notes
Lecture notes will be available in PPT and PDF format.
The notes may be subject to slightly change.
| Session |
Date |
Topic |
|
Readings |
| #1 (M) |
01/11/10 |
Introduction |
ppt,
pdf(4/1) |
Ch. 1; |
| #2 (W) |
01/13/10 |
Performance, Benchmarks,
Measurements |
|
Ch. 1;~docs/ (PAPI) |
| #- (M) |
01/18/10 |
No classes (MLK day)
|
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|
| #3 (W) |
01/20/10 |
Review: pipelining
|
ppt, pdf(4/1)
|
Appeendix A; Read Appendix B; |
| #4 (M) |
01/25/10 |
|
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| #5 (W) |
01/27/10 |
Review: Instruction Set Design |
ppt, pdf(4/1) |
Appendix A; Appendix B; ~docs/ (SimpleScalar) |
| #6 (M) |
02/01/10 |
Caches |
ppt, pdf(4/1) |
Chapter 5 |
| #7 (W) |
02/03/10 |
Memory |
ppt, pdf(4/1) |
Chapter 5 |
| #8 (M) |
02/08/10 |
ILP Dynamic |
ppt, pdf(4/1) |
Chapter 2 |
| #9 (W) |
02/10/10 |
|
|
|
| #10 (M) |
02/15/10 |
Branch Predictors |
ppt,
pdf(4/1) |
Chapter 2 |
| #11 (W) |
02/17/10 |
|
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|
| #12 (M) |
02/22/10 |
ILP, Static |
ppt,
pdf(4/1) |
|
| #13 (W) |
02/24/10 |
|
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| #14 (M) |
03/01/10 |
Midterm
Exam |
|
|
| #15 (W) |
03/03/10 |
Simultaneous
Multithreading |
ppt |
Pentium 4: ppt, pdf(4/1) |
| #16 (M) |
03/08/10 |
Vector processing |
ppt,
pdf(4/1) |
|
| #17 (W) |
03/10/10 |
Multiprocessors |
ppt, pdf(4/1) |
|
| #- (M) |
03/15/10 |
Spring Break
|
|
|
| #- (W) |
03/17/10 |
Spring Break
|
|
|
| #18 (M) |
03/22/10 |
Multiprocessors
|
ppt, pdf(4/1) |
|
| #19 (W) |
03/24/10 |
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| #20 (M) |
03/29/10 |
|
ppt |
|
| #21 (W) |
03/31/10 |
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| #22 (M) |
04/05/10 |
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| #23 (W) |
04/07/10 |
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| #24 (M) |
04/12/10 |
|
ppt
|
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| #25 (W) |
04/14/10 |
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| #26 (M) |
04/19/10 |
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#27 (M)
|
04/21/10
|
Project presentations |
|
|
#28 (W)
|
04/26/10
|
Last class, Project presentation |
|
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Homeworks
What
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Issued
|
Due
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Assignment
|
HW
#1
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01/25/2010
|
02/01/2010
|
hw1.pdf
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| HW
#2 |
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HW
#3
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| HW #4 |
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| HW #5 |
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