CP7103 MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES

CP7103      MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES

UNIT I   FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTITATIVE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS

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

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

UNIT III  TLP AND MULTIPROCESSORS

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

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

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.