Computer System Design: Advanced Concepts of Modern Microprocessors (edX)

Computer System Design: Advanced Concepts of Modern Microprocessors (edX)
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Computer System Design: Advanced Concepts of Modern Microprocessors (edX)
Learn about advanced computer design concepts, including how to make modern multicore-based computers both fast and energy efficient. In this computer science course, you will learn advanced concepts underpinning the design of today’s multicore-based computers. Additionally, you will learn how design decisions affect energy efficiency and performance.

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Overall, topics include fundamentals on exploiting parallelism among instructions such as out-of-order execution, branch prediction, exception handling and advanced concepts of memory systems including prefetching and cache coherency. These concepts are fundamental for future computer systems to maximize compute efficiency.




You will also engage with a community of learners with similar interests to share knowledge.

The course is derived from Chalmers’s advanced graduate course in computer architecture. Prospective students should have a foundation in basic computer design, as offered by, for example, in “Computer System Design - Improving Energy Efficiency and Performance.“

This course is part of the Computer System Design: Concepts of Modern Microprocessors Professional Certificate.


What you'll learn:

- The anatomy of a multicore-based computer

- Advanced design concepts used in future multicore-based computers

- How computer design affects how energy-efficiently and fast a program can execute on future computer systems

- How taught design concepts are used in modern multicore-based computer systems


Syllabus


WEEK 1: Instruction and thread-level parallelism and models for parallel and out-of-order execution (1 hour)

- Multicore systems: It is all about parallelism. Fundamentals.

- Microarchitecture fundamentals.

- Memory systems fundamentals.

- Performance fundamentals.

- Energy fundamentals.

- Putting it together.


WEEK 2: Speculative execution = OoO + branch prediction + Exception handling (1 hour)

- Baseline model and out-of-order completion.

- Tomasulo algorithm: step 1.

- Tomasulo algorithm: step 2.

- Branch prediction.

- Exception handling.

- Speculative execution.


WEEK 3: Advanced topics on cache design (1 hour)

- Fundamentals of memory design.

- The 3C model.

- Replacement algorithms.

- Prefetching algorithms.

- Memory systems (DRAM).

- Memory systems (Virtual memory and virtualization).


WEEK 4: Multicore design: multithreading and cache coherence (1 hour)

- Multicore design challenges.

- Multithreading fundamentals.

- Multithreading design alternatives (fine/course, SMT).

- Cache coherence concepts.

- Interconnection concepts.

- Putting it together.



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