EC4820: Advanced Computer Architecture - NPS Online
Advanced Computer Architecture
Course #EC4820
Est.imated Completion Time: 3 months
POC: NPS Online Support
Overview
Techniques to achieve high-performance computing, including advanced architectural features and highly parallel processors. Techniques for improving processor, memory subsystem, and I/O subsystem performance, including pipelining, memory interleaving, multi-level caching, and parallel I/O. Parallel computer models, scalability, and clustering. Parallel programming, the role of the compiler, and compiler parallelization techniques. Performance metrics, evaluation, and comparisons between parallel processors. Enabling technologies for highly parallel computers, including the use of microprocessors and field-programmable gate arrays. Distributed memory. Processor/cluster interconnection networks. Advanced implementation technologies and techniques, including reconfigurable computing. Military applications of high-performance computers and parallel processors.
Included in degrees & certificates
- 286
Prerequisites
- EC3800
- EC3820
- EC3830
- EC3840
Application Deadlines
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01 Apr 2024
Summer Quarter applications due
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08 Jul 2024
Fall Quarter applications due
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