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ChalmersX: Computer System Design: Advanced Concepts of Modern Microprocessors
Learn about advanced computer design concepts, including how to make modern multicore-based computers both fast and energy efficient.
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8 weeks at 4-6 hours per week
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Online - Self Paced
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About ChalmersX: Computer System Design: Advanced Concepts of Modern Microprocessors
In this computer science course, you will learn advanced concepts underpinning the design of today’s multicore-based computers. Additionally, you will learn how design decisions affect energy efficiency and performance.
Overall, topics include fundamentals on exploiting parallelism among instructions such as out-of-order execution, branch prediction, exception handling and advanced concepts of memory systems including prefetching and cache coherency. These concepts are fundamental for future computer systems to maximize compute efficiency.
You will also engage with a community of learners with similar interests to share knowledge.
The course is derived from Chalmers’s advanced graduate course in computer architecture. Prospective students should have a foundation in basic computer design, as offered by, for example, in “Computer System Design - Improving Energy Efficiency and Performance.“
What You Will Learn?
- The anatomy of a multicore-based computer.
- Advanced design concepts used in future multicore-based computers.
- How computer design affects how energy-efficiently and fast a program can execute on future computer systems.
- How taught design concepts are used in modern multicore-based computer systems.