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Control flow computers and Data flow computers (Data driven, Demand driven). Classification of computer architectures by Flynn’s taxonomy. Parallel processing – multi-core, multiprocessor and multiple computers based systems, the concept of parallel processing. Amdahl's and Gustafson's law. Performance metrics. English: PDF: 01_introduction_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 01_introduction_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 01_introduction_b4m35pap.pdf ODP: 01_introduction_b4m35pap.odp
Superscalar processors with static, dynamic, and hybrid scheduling of instructions execution. English: PDF: 02_superskalar_organization_introduction_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 02_superskalar_organization_introduction_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 02_superskalarni_organizace_uvod_a4m36pap.pdf You should already know: pipelining_a4m36pap.pdf
Registers renaming (Tomasul algorithm) and data speculation. Precise exception support. English: PDF: 03_superskalar_technics_data_flow_inside_processor_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 03_superskalar_technics_data_flow_inside_processor_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 03_superskalarni_techniky_tok_dat_uvnitr_procesoru_a4m36pap.pdf
Prediction, predictors and instructions prefetching. Static and dynamic predictions; Smith's predictor, two-level predictors with local and global history, bi-mode, adaptive branch prediction technique, and more. Branch misprediction recovery. English: PDF: 04_superskalar_technics_instruction_prefetching_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 04_superskalar_technics_instruction_prefetching_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 04_superskalarni_techniky_spekulace_a_predikce_vetveni_a4m36pap.pdf
Data flow from / to memory. Load bypassing and Load forwarding. Speculative load. Some other ways to reduce memory latency. VLIW and EPIC processors. Use of data parallelism, SIMD and vector instruction in ISA. Loop unrolling and Software pipelining - Execution on WLIV and superscalar processor. English: PDF: 05_superskalar_technics_memory_data_flow_vliw_and_epic_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 05_superskalar_technics_memory_data_flow_vliw_and_epic_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 05_superskalarni_techniky_memory_data_flow_a_vliw_a_epic_a4m36pap.pdf
Non-Blocking cache, Victim cache, Virtual memory and cache. English: PDF: 06_memory_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 06_memory_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 06-pamet_uvod-pap.pdf
Multiprocessor computers architectures. Distributed and shared memory systems (DMS, SMS). Symmetric multiprocessor computer architectures. Methods to ensure coherence in SMP. English: PDF: 07-memory_coherence_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 07-memory_coherence_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 07-pamet_koherence-pap.pdf
Older lecture version: 07_pamet_cast_2_koherence_a4m36pap.pdf
Rules for performing memory operations, ensuring sequential consistency, memory consistency models. English: PDF: 08-memory_consistency-b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 08-memory_consistency-b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 08-pamet_konzistence-pap.pdf
Older lecture version: 08_pamet_cast_3_konzistence_a4m36pap.pdf
Introduction. English: PDF: 09_parallelism_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 09_parallelism_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF:09_paralelizmus_pap.pdf
Parallel systems programming concepts, using Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP) to create parallel programs. English: PDF: 10_parallelism_programming_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 10_parallelism_programming_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 10_paralelni_programovani_a4m36pap.pdf
Synchronization. Code optimization. Cache maintenance, consequences of coherence protocols. Included if time allows.
Static and dynamic interconnection network. English: PDF: 11_interconnection_networks_b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 11_interconnection_networks_b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 11_propojovaci_site_pap.pdf
English: PDF: 13_gpu_and_gpgpu_b4m35pap.pdf ODP: 13_gpu_and_gpgpu_b4m35pap.odp Czech: PDF: 13_gpu_a_gpgpu_pap.pdf
Sample of selected partitions on processor Intel Nehalem, AMD Optreon, IBM Power4, ARM, AArch64, RISC-V.
Intel Nehalem, Haswell, AMD Optreon, IBM Power4: 12_nehalem_a4m36pap.pdf
ARM, AArch64, RISC-V: English: PDF: 12-risc-arch-b4m35pap-en.pdf ODP: 12-risc-arch-b4m35pap-en.odp Czech: PDF: 12-risc-arch.pdf
English: PDF: 14_history_and_future_b4m35pap.pdf ODP: 14_history_and_future_b4m35pap.odp Czech: PDF: 14_historie_a_vyhledy_pap.pdf
Materials to refresh knowledge about I/O subsystem: PCIe, HyperTransport, QuickPathInterconnect 10_io_podsystem.pdf
English: PDF: 14_spectre_meltdown_and_others.pdf ODP: 14_spectre_meltdown_and_others.odp