ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Catalog description

This course will provide an in-depth understanding of the key architectural concepts governing the design of state-of-the-art high-performance computers. It will introduce methods that are commonly used to trade-off the various architectural choices to design systems with the desired cost-performance requirements. The course will provide a systems level perspective to design. The emphasis will be on the cache, memory and I/O subsystems, system interconnects leading to distributed shared-memory multiprocessor systems. Multiprocessor clusters based on message passing and high-performance processor architecture will be covered. The course will also provide a brief overview of emerging system architectures including quantum computing and those used to facilitate machine learning applications.