CA226 - Advanced Computer Architectures

 

This course is based on the text-book

Computer Architecture - a Quantitative Approach, by Hennessy & Patterson, 4th edition 

The text-book has an associated Web Site

Lecture Notes are available from the public drive \public\mike\ca226\ca226-n.doc, where n=1,2,3…..

 

Resources

Some nice pipeline animations and tutorial material is available from here http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Jeremy.Jones/vivio/vivio.htm

This article describes some neat optimisation tricks for that most challenging of environments – 64-bit gaming

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/dwamd_AMD_GDC_2004_MW.pdf

 

Notes on the new CELL microprocessor from IBM/Sony - http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell1.html

 

If you are lucky enough to own a PC with an AMD processor, try downloading and experimenting with AMD’s CodeAnalyst program, which profiles your code and finds “hotspots”. It also includes a very nice pipeline simulator – see www.amd.com and click on “develop with AMD”

 

To find out more about your own PC and its processor, download free tools from www.cpuid.com

A new tool winmips64 has been developed for use with the MIPS64 processor as described in the latest version of the text-book. It is free, so download it if you wish.

 

Course News -2008

First assessment can be found here. Due date 7th April 2008

Second assessment – Lab exam – LG25/26. 21st April 2008

1st Assessment Marks 2007/2008

56717233

79

56458564

88

56825338

100

56634516

0

56744150

69

56646204

50

56575501

100

56586261

100

55418305

0

56405339

100

56413706

0

55474302

95

55494753

50

55480591

40

56444351

0

55133347

94

56788726

50

56586279

97

56413498

85

56793282

0

56587739

50

54145864

0

55065976

0

55569451

81

56102607

63

56504884

79

56446752

100

55646871

57

55325463

82

55092213

0

56692869

80

56600646

81

56708579

0

55683581

86

56531334

0

56579230

83

56456987

100

55878403

0

55144501

0

56106033

63

55398231

0

56787878

99

56399622

0

56643388

100

55580161

50

56463614

77

55130500

0

54157480

80

56492649

68

56589910

90

55423791

0

56676995

65

56101775

86

55140670

84

57108811

93

57106517

96

 

1st Assessment Marks 2006/2007

CA226 Advanced Computer Architectures

id no.

CA1 20%

53455751

86

55375894

86

55458358

83

55386799

71

55601193

80

55474230

81

55379521

84

54594681

50

55418305

59

55644267

70

55493676

25

55625971

76

55640512

25

55608091

80

55142532

91

55554501

54

55818541

100

55638976

100

55034949

25

54145864

59

55413281

92

55134912

75

55377919

90

55434076

86

55833698

78

55381126

88

55644704

25

55822807

72

55619599

80

55869129

61

55436320

80

55597595

88

55600740

81

55354781

65

55640351

74

55474035

91

55325463

25

55543631

100

55512808

91

55519292

84

55561744

86

55857899

70

55509009

81

55602602

77

55144501

25

55418917

50

55593506

30

55432804

100

55410894

30

54328370

69

54156645

92

54169739

58

56110448

100

56125925

92

56125917

93

56113382

90

56113391

86

56110308

85

 

CA marks for 2005/2006

(p1) Marks Sheet for CASE 2 - BSc in Computer Applications (Sft.Eng.)

CA226 Advanced Computer Architectures Exam Month: 5

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