CSCI 4717

Addresses advanced topics related to the architecture of microprocessor systems and parallel architectures so as to take advantage of performance features, make better decisions when selecting a target architecture, and understand the consequences of different implementations.

CSCI 3160 and CSCI 3230, each with a C or better

• Demonstrate an understanding of the organization and architecture of computer systems.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of higher level, abstract ideas to the features of a machine's architecture.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the issues that influence designs of programming languages, operating systems, databases, and algorithms.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts and techniques of constructing machines as a series of levels.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of some advanced topics, such as stack computers, parallel computers, overlap and pipeline processing, and performance evaluation.
• Demonstrate through both simulation and the development of performance measuring applications an understanding of how different architectures affect performance.

• Historical Architectures and Computer Models
• Operands, Addressing Modes, & Stack
• Pipelining and Branch Prediction
• Memory Cache
• Interrupts and Other I/O Issues
• Parallelism Basics and Instruction-Level Parallelism
• Thread-Level Parallelism: SMP and Cache Coherence
• Performance Measurements
• Instruction Set Architecture
• RISC vs. CISC Architectures/ARM Thumb Mode
• Virtual Memory
• RAID
• Superscalar Machines & Memory-Level Parallelism
• Networks and MPI for cluster computing

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