R22 M.TECH.
CSE/CS JNTUH
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (PC - III)
M.Tech CSE/CS I Year II Sem. L T P C
3 0 0 3
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.
