Computer System Architecture, Fall 2005
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- Author:
- Arvind, V.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Institution:
- M.I.T.
- Collection:
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Level:
- Post-secondary
- Abstract:
Emphasizes the relationship among technology, hardware organization, and programming systems in the evolution of computer architecture. Pipelined, out-of-order, and speculative execution. Superscaler, VLIW, vector, and multithreaded processors. Addressing structures and virtual memory, and exception handling. I/O and memory systems. Parallel computers; message passing and shared memory systems. Memory models, synchronization, and cache coherence protocols. Vector supercomputers. Assumes an undergraduate knowledge of computer systems.
- Language:
- English
- Material Type:
- Assessments, Full Course, Homework and Assignments, Lecture Notes, Syllabi
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Text/HTML
- Conditions of Use:
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