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 -2009

First Lab session takes place on Monday 9^th March, 4.00 LG.25

OLD! Details of the first assessment can be downloaded from here and here

OLD! This assessment will be examined and marked during the scheduled Lab Session on Monday 6^th of April in LG.25 at 4.00pm. Bring along a listing of your program, with your name on it. Place your ID card on the table in front of you. Be seated by 4.00pm. You have up to 2 hours to complete the assessment.

NEW! Second Lab exam will take place on Monday April 20^th in LG.25 at 4.00pm. Place your ID card on the table in front of you. Be seated by 4.00pm. You have up to 2 hours to complete the assessment.

1^st Assessment Marks 2008/2009

CA226 Advanced Computer Architecture
id no.	Cont. Assmt 1- 20%
57100071
57582269	50
57376227	30
57430990	100
57839588	50
57603843
57346999	87
57058853	30
57706120	100
56788726
57884028	35
57524901	30
54145864	35
55065976	75
57454872	30
57896905	30
57508263	92
57100951	50
57635753	50
57823339	91
55092213	10
56708579	83
57615426	60
57609710	50
56504051
57458185	81
57339208	30
56466532	63
57495404	100
55580528	79
56787878	*
56041728	30
57327145
57347677
57437901	30
57527420	35
57325312	86
57811144
55580161	10
56710905	86

1^st 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

1^st 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
id no.	CA1 %	CA2 %	CA total %
54078101	21	80	51
54401476	0	69	35
54587821	51	91	71
54506944	48		24
54322240	0	69	35
54333411	0	95	48
54414900	20		10
54615417			0
54494563	51	87	69
54579330	0	69	35
54594681	0	55	28
54654510	52	74	63
54566106	31	78	55
54352076	43	100	72
54549228	0	69	35
54462670	0	55	28
54682823	100	100	100
54367863	50	91	71
54308395	63	69	66
54559096	52	82	67
55144535			0
54430093	89	86	88
55134912			0
55130747	74	65	70
54809301	0	69	35
54346505	95	78	87
99399610	0	50	25
54384369	96	66	81
54358481	82	94	88
54442806	51	64	58
54310209	11	97	54
54859375	29	69	49
54518977	51	69	60
53950204	100	100	100
53955567	100	100	100
54335856	51	67	59
54681541	30	55	43
54402987	41	55	48
54552504	63	95	79
54323866	63	50	57
54472217	51	83	67
54024290	31	89	60
54483715	0	80	40
54466551	71	91	81
54627628	40	64	52
54366417	0	73	37
54394399	0	55	28
54024427	100	100	100
54699891	0	51	26
53400565	21	89	55
53956008			0
54472012	0	90	45
53524396			0
53960234	0	69	35
54556585	0	55	28
54455053	63	80	72
54636511	100	100	100
54368886	96	69	83