13M114PAR - Computer Architecture And Compiler Parallelism
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| Course title | Computer Architecture And Compiler Parallelism | |||
| Acronym | 13M114PAR | |||
| Study programme | Electrical Engineering and Computing | |||
| Module | Applied Mathematics, Audio and Video Technologies, Biomedical and Environmental Engineering, Biomedical and Nuclear Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Electronics and Digital Systems, Energy Efficiency, Information and Communication Technologies, Microwave Engineering, Nanoelectronics and Photonics, Power Systems - Networks and Systems, Power Systems - Renewable Energy Sources, Power Systems - Substations and Power Equipment, Signals and Systems, Software Engineering | |||
| Type of study | master academic studies | |||
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| Lecturer/Associate (for practice) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
| ESPB | 6.0 | Status | elective | |
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| The goal | Understanding: the limits of parallel performance, the parallelism at the instruction parallelism and loop detection and use of parallelism in hardware | |||
| The outcome | Profound understanding of superscalar and VLIW processors, optimization for parallel execution in modern compilers and models of parallelism | |||
| Contents | ||||
| Contents of lectures | Parallelism at the instruction level. Data dependencies and data dependency graphs. Trace scheduling. Speculative execution. Parallelism in loops. Loop data dependency graphs. Software pipelining. Vector supercomputers, Very Large Instruction Machines (VLIW) and Superscalar processors. | |||
| Contents of exercises | Implementation of the simulation for the algorithms that enable higher level of ILP | |||
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| Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year | ||||
| Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Methods of teaching | Classroom courses, education using simulators | |||
| Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
| Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
| Activites during lectures | Test paper | |||
| Practical lessons | 30 | Oral examination | 70 | |
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