CS570 Advanced Computer Architecture

CS570 Advanced Computer Architecture (3 cr. sect. 1) -- Spring 2011

Lecture: 10:00-11:15pm, Tuesday, Thursday, Stuart Building 107
Prerequest: CS470 or equivalent

Last Modified: January 9, 2011

General information
Course description
Course materials
Lecture scripts
Assignments
Communication
Evaluation

All information provide here in are tentative and subject to minor change

General Information

Instructor: Xian-He Sun, email: sun@iit.edu

Office Hours

4:30 to 5:30p.m. Thursday, after class, or by appointment

Course Description

This course is about advanced computer architecture. It teaches the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance and cost goals, and teaches the qualitative and quantitative examination of computer design tradeoffs. We cover the system architecture, processor technology, advanced memory hierarchy and I/O organization, power and energy management, and reliability, and conver the new development in multicore, data center design, and parallel I/O. We will learn, for example, how uniprocessors execute many instructions concurrently and why state-of-the-art memory systems are nearly as complex as processors, and etc. We will follow the text by Patterson and Hennessy, with additional material pulling from other recources. Assignments will include problems from the end of the chapters as will as some selected exercises. For the last part of the course we will read an assortment of papers and work on different term projects.

Topics include:

Computer Platforms and Models
Performance evaluation and Benchmarks
Microprocessors: pipelining, dynamic, multi-threading and multi-processing
Cache and Memory Technology
SSD Design and Storage system
System Interconnects and Gigabit Network
Parallel Architecture

Course Materials

Text: John L. Hennessy David A. Patterson; Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (4th Edition); Morgan Kaufmann, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-12-370490-0 (see here for additional resources related to the text.)
Recommended: William Stallings; Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 7/E; Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN: 0-13-185644-8 (see here for additional resources related to the text.)

On-Line Resources

Computer Architecture Web site

Lecture Script

Introduction
Performance and Cost
Pipelining
Dynamic Execution
Mult-threading and multi-processing
Cache
DRAM and Memory Hierarchies
Memory Technology: Prefetching
SSD and Storage System
Network design
Parallel Processing

Assignments

Assignments will be given. Normally these will be due in two weeks. Large assignments and the term project will be given longer periods of time.

Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 5
Exam, 2011
Term Project Presentation

Solutions

Solutions of the homeworks and program assignments may be provided from time to time to meet the need.

Homework 1 solution HTML
Homework 2 solution HTML

Term Project

Project Guideline
Prestation Guideline
Important Date
- Two-page Term Project Proposal Due: Jan. 31, 2011
- Final Term Project Report Due: May. 2, 2011

Communication

The course will use blackboard for communication.

On individual matters, please feel free to contact your instructor via email.

Evaluation

30% -- Homework, Programming Assignment
30% -- Exam
30% -- Term Project
10% -- Class Paticipation

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