Advanced Computer Architecture
- Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Advanced Computer Architecture

INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM

1. Fundamentals of Computer Design - Answer (click here)
2. Measuring and Reporting Performance - Answer (click here)
3. Quantitative Principles of Computer Design - Answer (click here)
4. Instruction-Level Parallelism: Concepts and Challenges - Answer (click here)
5. Dynamic Scheduling - Answer (click here)
6. Hardware speculation - Answer (click here)
7. Compiler Techniques for Exposing ILP - Answer (click here)
8. Branch Prediction method - Answer (click here)
9. Important Short Questions and Answers: Instruction Level Parallelism - Answer (click here)

MULTIPLE ISSUE PROCESSORS

1. VLIW Approach - Answer (click here)
2. EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) - Answer (click here)
3. Hardware Support for Exposing More Parallelism at Compiler Time - Answer (click here)
4. Hardware versus Software Speculation Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
5. IA-64 Architecture - Answer (click here)
6. Limitations of ILP - Answer (click here)
7. Important Questions and Answers: Multiple Issue Processors - Answer (click here)

MULTIPROCESSORS AND THREAD LEVEL PARALLELISM

1. Symmetric Shared Memory Architectures - Answer (click here)
2. Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures - Answer (click here)
3. Synchronization and various Hardware Primitives - Answer (click here)
4. Multithreading exploiting TLP - Answer (click here)
5. Important Questions and Answers: Multiprocessors and Thread Level Parallelism - Answer (click here)

MEMORY AND IO

1. Cache Performance - Answer (click here)
2. Virtual memory & techniques for fast address translation - Answer (click here)
3. Storage Systems - Answer (click here)
4. Buses: Connecting I/O Devices to CPU/Memory - Answer (click here)
5. RAID : Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks - Answer (click here)
6. Benchmarks of storage performance and availability - Answer (click here)
7. Design and I/O System in Five Easy Pieces - Answer (click here)
8. Important Short Questions and Answers: Memory and I/O - Answer (click here)

MULTI CORE ARCHITECTURES

1. Multi-threading - Answer (click here)
2. SMT and CMP Architectures - Answer (click here)
3. Design Issues: Design Challenges of SMT - Answer (click here)
4. Case Studies: Multicore architecture - Answer (click here)
5. IBM Cell Processor - Answer (click here)
6. Important Questions and Answers: Multi-Core Architectures - Answer (click here)