コンピューター・アーキテクチャ
Computer Architecture

• 計算機の構成と動作原理
• 高級言語と機械語
• コンパイラと最適化技術
• オペレーティングシステムとプロセッサの関係
• プロセッサの構成と設計
• インプット・アウトプットシステム、データストレージシステム
• マルチプロセッサネットワーク

• Structure and development of processors
• High-level language and machine language
• Compiler optimization
• Relationship of architecture and operating systems
• Input/output systems, data storage systems
• Multiprocessor networks

教材

Lecture by Lecture

The first week, there is a short lecture. Most of the rest of the semester will be hands-on work and discussion during class time. Generally, Mondays will be spent on discussing the contents of the wiki, and Fridays will be spent in hands-on programming an analysis work.

• 第1回 速い　
  Lecture 1: Fast
  • 配布資料 Lecture Notes
  • Lampson, Hints for Computer System Design

  Lecture 1: Fast
    Concepts: What's in a computer?
    	    What's our goal in designing a computer?
  	    Reading a performance graph
    In-class exercise: show around Intel CPUs, computer parts
    Homework (programming/hands-on computing): install R on your laptop
    Homework (analysis problem set): (none)
      

• 第11回 Memory: Caching and Memory Hierarchy Lecture 11 Memory: Caching and Memory Hierarchy
  • 配布資料 Lecture Notes

  Lecture 7: Memory: Caching and Memory Hierarchy
    Concepts: Four key questions in cache design
    In-class exercise: (none)
    Homework (programming): (none)
    Homework (analysis problem set): cache behavior
  
  

Requirements

The course consists of fourteen ninety-minute classes. Students are expected to contribute a large amount of material to the group wiki, contribute to classroom discussions, complete the homeworks, and pass a final exam.

There are several types of exercises that you must do during the course of this semester. You grade will be composed of the following, with a maximum total of 200 points:

• Wiki development (combined with attendance and participation, 50 points)
  Your contributions to the wiki are expected to be finished before Mondays, so that you can present them to your classmates each Monday.
• Programming/hands-on (60 points):
  1. Install R (trivial, 5 points)
  2. Install MIPS simulator (trivial, 5 points)
  3. Matrix multiplication in C (easy, 10 points)
  4. Matrix multiplication in assembler (hard, double credit, 20 points)
  5. Integer performance, floating point precision and performance (easy, 10 points)
  6. Measure parallel performance (easy, 10 points)
• Analysis problem sets (40 points):
  1. Matrix multiplication/counting computational operations (10 points)
  2. Estimating CPU and memory performance (10 points)
  3. Optimizing in the context of design constraints (hard, double credit, 20 points) (last exercise, due end of the semester)
• Final exam (50 points)

その他

• Rodney Van Meterのホームページ
• 村井研究室