CENG 6332: High Performance Computer Architecture

Spring 2018

Description

Introduction to systems architecture design and tuning techniques for High Performance Computing; RISC’s, cache, pipelines, hypercubes, data-flow and supercomputers.

Instructor

Dr. Hakduran Koc

Room : Delta 110

Email : KocHakduran at uhcl dot edu

Web : http://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/koch/

Phone : x3877

Office Hours: Tue 1-3pm, Wed 11am-1pm

Teaching Assistant

tba

Room :

Email :

Office Hours:

Meeting

Thu 8:30am-11:20am in Room D242

Textbook

Parallel Computer Organization and Design by Michel Dubois, Murali Annavaran, and Per Stenstrom; 1^st Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780521886758.

References

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John Hennessy and David Patterson; 5th Edition; Morgan Kaufmann; 20011; ISBN: 9780123838728.

Tentative Course Schedule

Date	Topics covered
Jan. 18	Intro to class, Overview, Syllabus
Jan. 25	Ch. 1 – Introduction HW 1 – Due: February 15
Feb. 1	Performance Analysis HW 2 – Due: February 22 Ch. 2 – Impact of Technology
Feb. 8	Ch. 3 - Processor Microarchitecture Processor and Pipelining
Feb. 15	Ch. 3 - Processor Microarchitecture (cont.)
Feb. 22	Ch. 3 - Processor Microarchitecture (cont.) HW 3 – Due: March 8
Mar. 1	Ch. 3 - Processor Microarchitecture (cont.) HW 4 – Due: April 12
Mar. 8	Ch. 4 - Memory Hierarchies Memory Hierarchy Basics and Design
Mar. 15	Exam 1 (Extra class for the first-week university closure) Sample Exam 1 Sample Exam 2 Sample Exam 3
Mar. 22	Ch. 4 - Memory Hierarchies (cont.) HW 5 – Due: April 19
Mar. 29	Ch. 4 - Memory Hierarchies (cont.) HW 6 – Due: April 26
Apr. 5	Ch. 5 - Multiprocessor Systems
Apr. 12	Ch. 6 - Interconnection Networks
Apr. 19	Ch. 7 - Coherence, Synchronization, and Memory Consistency
Apr. 26	Ch. 8 - Chip Multiprocessors
Apr. 28	Exam 2 (tentative) Sample Quiz Questions
Grades - (Updated: April 28)

LINKS

- Top500

- SPEC Benchmarks

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