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Prerequisites: CS220A

Course Contents

Introduction: Overview of Computer Architecture, Performance evaluation of processors, Pipelining, Super pipelines, Advanced pipelines, static and dynamic scheduling, Instruction level parallelism, loop unrolling, VLIW and Super scalar processors, Vector processing and array processing, Memory: bandwidth issues, memory organization, cache coherence, Symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), NUMAMPs, Massively parallel processors, Cache coherence protocols, Interconnection networks, I/O processing, parallel programming, Examples of contemporary architectures, AS (Reliability, Availability, Scalability) features. 

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