JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Prerequisites

Computer Organization

Course Objectives:

• 1. To impart the concepts and principles of parallel and advanced computer architectures.
• 2. To develop the design techniques of Scalable and multithreaded Architectures.
• 3. To Apply the concepts and techniques of parallel and advanced computer architectures to design modern computer systems

Course Outcomes

Gain knowledge of

• 1. Computational models and Computer Architectures.
• 2. Concepts of parallel computer models.
• 3. Scalable Architectures, Pipelining, Superscalar processors

UNIT - I

Theory of Parallelism, Parallel computer models, The State of Computing, Multiprocessors and Multicomputers, Multivector and SIMD Computers, PRAM and VLSI models, Architectural development tracks, Program and network properties, Conditions of parallelism, Program partitioning and Scheduling, Program flow Mechanisms, System interconnect Architectures.

UNIT - II

Principles of Scalable performance, Performance metrics and measures, Parallel Processing applications, Speed up performance laws, Scalability Analysis and Approaches, Hardware Technologies, Processes and Memory Hierarchy, Advanced Processor Technology, Superscalar and Vector Processors

UNIT - III

Shared-Memory Organizations, Sequential and weak consistency models, Pipelining and superscalar techniques, Linear Pipeline Processors, Non-Linear Pipeline Processors, Instruction Pipeline design, Arithmetic pipeline design, superscalar pipeline design.

UNIT - IV

Parallel and Scalable Architectures, Multiprocessors and Multicomputers, Multiprocessor system interconnects, cache coherence and synchronization mechanism, Three Generations of Multicomputers, Message-passing Mechanisms, Multivetor and SIMD computers.

UNIT - V

Vector Processing Principles, Multivector Multiprocessors, Compound Vector processing, SIMD computer Organizations, The connection machine CM-5.

TEXT BOOK:

• 1. Advanced Computer Architecture, Kai Hwang, 2nd Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Publishers.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Computer Architecture, J.L. Hennessy and D.A. Patterson, 4th Edition, ELSEVIER.
• 2. Advanced Computer Architectures, S.G.Shiva, Special Indian edition, CRC, Taylor &Francis.
• 3. Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers, G. Hager and G. Wellein, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
• 4. Advanced Computer Architecture, D. Sima, T. Fountain, P. Kacsuk, Pearson education.
• 5. Computer Architecture, B. Parhami, Oxford Univ. Press.