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CS-471: Advanced multiprocessor architecture

Summary

Multiprocessors are basic building blocks for all computer systems. This course covers the architecture and organization of modern multiprocessors, prevalent accelerators (e.g., GPU, TPU), and datacenters. It includes a research project on multiprocessors and post-Moore era datacenters.

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Instructor

Babak Falsafi

Babak is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and the founding director of the EcoCloud, an industrial/academic consortium at EPFL investigating scalable data-centric technologies. He has made numerous contributions to computer system design and evaluation including a scalable multiprocessor architecture which was prototyped by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), snoop filters and memory streaming technologies that are incorporated into IBM BlueGene/P and Q and ARM cores, and computer system performance evaluation methodologies that have been in use by AMD, HP and Google PerKit . He has shown that hardware memory consistency models are neither necessary (in the 90's) nor sufficient (a decade later) to achieve high performance in multiprocessor systems. These results eventually led to fence speculation in modern microprocessors. His latest work on workload-optimized server processors laid the foundation for the first generation of Cavium ARM server CPUs, ThunderX. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, IBM Faculty Partnership Awards, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM.

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/advanced-multiprocessor-architecture-CS-471

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/CS-471

Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Babak Falsafi

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/advanced-multiprocessor-architecture-CS-471

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/CS-471

Lectures in this course (23)

Advanced Multiprocessor Architecture Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers Advanced Multiprocessor Architecture, discussing course logistics, components, grading, and trends in modern computing systems.

Project Presentation: Semester Projects and Topics Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers semester projects, project logistics, successful project examples, proposal writing, and various project options related to systems, threading, serverless programming, virtual memory, cloud benchmarking, and AI accelerators.

CMP Caches I Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores CMP cache basics, transactional memory, in-flight transactions, cache overflow mechanism, and victim replication.

Reactive NUCA: Cache Block Placement & Replication Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores cache block placement, replication policies, and management strategies in Reactive NUCA for multi-core caches.

Interconnects: Networks-on-Chip Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers cache partitioning, Vantage scheme, interconnects, and Networks-on-Chip in many-core systems.

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