Note for Advanced Computer Architecture - ACA By Tarini Mishra

Introduction; Classes of computers Defining computer architecture Trends in Technology, power in Integrated Circuits and cost Dependability Measuring reporting and summarizing Performance Quantitative Principles of computer design

Introduction Pipeline hazards Implementation of pipeline What makes pipelining hard to implement?

ILP Concepts and challenges Basic Compiler Techniques for exposing ILP Reducing Branch costs with prediction Overcoming Data hazards with Dynamic scheduling Hardware-based speculation

Exploiting ILP using multiple issue and static scheduling Exploiting ILP using dynamic scheduling Multiple issue and speculation Advanced Techniques for instruction delivery and Speculation The Intel Pentium 4 as example

Introduction Symmetric shared-memory architectures Performance of symmetric shared—memory multiprocessors Distributed shared memory and directory-based coherence Basics of synchronization Models of Memory Consistency

Introduction Cache performance Cache Optimizations Virtual memory

Introduction Advanced optimizations of Cache performance Memory technology and optimizations Protection Virtual memory and virtual machines

Introduction Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism Statically Detecting and Enhancing Loop-Level Parallelism Scheduling and Structuring Code for Parallelism Hardware Support for Exposing Parallelism Predicated Instructions; Hardware Support for Compiler Speculation The Intel IA-64 Architecture and Itanium Processor; Conclusions