EGEC 520 - Advanced Computer Architecture (3)

Performance analysis and evaluation; limitations of scalar pipelines; superpipelined, superscalar and VLIW processing; parallelism in programs; memory and I/O systems; out-of-order execution; branch prediction; register and memory data flow techniques; Tomasulo’s algorithm; COTS hardware accelerators, CUDA, GPU programming architecture.

Prerequisite: EGEC 381 or graduate standing.

Graduate-level