CP7103 MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES

CP7103 MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES 

UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTITATIVE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS 9

Classes of Computers – Trends in Technology, Power, Energy and Cost – Dependability – Measuring, Reporting and Summarizing Performance – Quantitative Principles of Computer Design – Classes of Parallelism - ILP, DLP, TLP and RLP - Multithreading - SMT and CMP Architectures – Limitations of Single Core Processors - The Multicore era – Case Studies of Multicore Architectures.

UNIT II DLP IN VECTOR, SIMD AND GPU ARCHITECTURES 9

Vector Architecture - SIMD Instruction Set Extensions for Multimedia – Graphics Processing Units - Detecting and Enhancing Loop Level Parallelism - Case Studies. 

UNIT III TLP AND MULTIPROCESSORS 9

Symmetric and Distributed Shared Memory Architectures – Cache Coherence Issues - Performance Issues – Synchronization Issues – Models of Memory Consistency - Interconnection Networks – Buses, Crossbar and Multi-stage Interconnection Networks.

UNIT IV RLP AND DLP IN WAREHOUSE-SCALE ARCHITECTURES 9

Programming Models and Workloads for Warehouse-Scale Computers – Architectures for Warehouse-Scale Computing – Physical Infrastructure and Costs – Cloud Computing – Case Studies.

UNIT V ARCHITECTURES FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS 9 Features and Requirements of Embedded Systems – Signal Processing and Embedded Applications – The Digital Signal Processor – Embedded Multiprocessors - Case Studies.

REFERENCES: 

1. John L. Hennessey and David A. Patterson, “ Computer Architecture – A Quantitative

Approach”, Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 5th edition, 2012.

2. Kai Hwang, “Advanced Computer Architecture”, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

3. Richard Y. Kain, “Advanced Computer Architecture a Systems Design Approach”,

Prentice Hall, 2011.

4. David E. Culler, Jaswinder Pal Singh, “Parallel Computing Architecture : A Hardware/

Software Approach” , Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 1997.