Advanced Computer Architecture

Table of Contents Introduction Fundamental of Computer Design and the Concept of Computer Architecture Parallel Architecture and Interconnection Networks Performance Metrices, Measures and Speedup Performance Laws Pipelining and Memory Hierarchy Instruction Set Principles Pipelining and Superscalar Techniques Memory Hierarchy Design Thread and Process Level Parallel Architecture Introduction to Mimd Architecture and Clustering Introduction to SIMD Architecture and Vector Architecture Parallel Algorithm PRAM Algorithm Matrix Multiplication and Solving Linear Systems Developing Parallel Computing Applications OpenMP Implementation Message Passing Interface Appendices Examination Paper Index