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Advanced Computer Architecture

72 points by ThomasMorrison 11y ago

PhilWright 11y ago
The linked page is devoid of any interesting content. What are we supposed to do with this link?
- executesorder66 11y ago
  I'm not even sure how this got 6 upvotes.
  - dct 11y ago
    May be the number of people who took this course and found it interesting?
- ajdlinux 11y ago
  I assume one is meant to look at the lecture and tutorial documents that are linked from there.
- kenshiro_o 11y ago
  This is a great course from Paul Kelly at Imperial College - I took it when studying there and found it fascinating, although I should have worked much harder on it. You should have a look at the lecture notes. If the course is too advanced, you can look for its predecessor, which introduces RISC architecture very well and constitutes a strong starting point for anyone interested in this field.
- ThomasMorrison 11y ago
  you want to access the "web backup" https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lectures/pdfs https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lect...
nickpsecurity 11y ago
PhilWright and executesorder66 comments are interesting given some things that make Hacker News without such comments. I hope the second paragraph of this article explains things a bit more: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1189286 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1189286 The people that invented RISC, SPARC and MIPS namely, wrote some books teaching computer architecture that had a large effect on academia, industry, etc. This course is based on their advanced work. You get the information for free. It's in PDF form for easy reading. Great to get stuff for free that some people paid a lot of money to learn, eh? Useful too. One just confirmed an idea my past year of HW research had about 180nm being sweet spot for open-source HW efforts: Pentium 4 was done on it albeit full-custom and with Intel level of expertise. Should be able to do plenty at that node in 2015 with application-specific designs. The 130 node required physical verification tied to synthesis but 180-350 might work with Qflow synthesis. Seeing what P4 achieved. I also have an upper bound on what eventual full-custom would likely achieve. I'm extra confident in my recommendation despite never having built an ASIC. Thanks Thomas. :)
- uulbiy 11y ago
  The content of the lecture notes[1] seem good, although I don't really like the presentation that much. Also, its difficult to follow just the notes without watching or listening to the lectures. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the online education websites (Coursera, EdX, etc.) Last year I took "The Hardware/Software Interface"[2] on Coursera and it was great. [1]: Direct link to PDFs https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lectures/pdfs/ https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lect... [2]: Details: https://www.coursera.org/course/hwswinterface https://www.coursera.org/course/hwswinterface Course content: https://class.coursera.org/hwswinterface-002 https://class.coursera.org/hwswinterface-002
  - Zuikaku 11y ago
    As someone who very recently took this course (around 6 months ago to be exact), his flow of lecture is jarring if you aren't paying attention (and the confusion of the slides accentuates this), but the raw content is still very very useful (revising for this exam was easier than some others). While I'm not able to share them with you, IC also has a system of recorded lectures, which makes these even easier to follow.
maxrev17 11y ago
Imperial bants!
johnflan 11y ago
CATE shudders
- OJFord 11y ago
  Better than 'BlackBoard' which other dept.s shell out so much for!
springogeek 11y ago
I took this course a couple years ago, and it is very well put together. Not something I expected to see on HN, but hey. If you have time to peruse it, I recommend it :)
ThomasMorrison 11y ago
you want to click on the "web backup link" to get the pdfs. here is the direct link: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lectures/pdfs https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lect...

The linked page is devoid of any interesting content. What are we supposed to do with this link?

executesorder66 11y ago
I'm not even sure how this got 6 upvotes.
- dct 11y ago
  May be the number of people who took this course and found it interesting?
ajdlinux 11y ago
I assume one is meant to look at the lecture and tutorial documents that are linked from there.
kenshiro_o 11y ago
This is a great course from Paul Kelly at Imperial College - I took it when studying there and found it fascinating, although I should have worked much harder on it. You should have a look at the lecture notes. If the course is too advanced, you can look for its predecessor, which introduces RISC architecture very well and constitutes a strong starting point for anyone interested in this field.
ThomasMorrison 11y ago
you want to access the "web backup" https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lectures/pdfs https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lect...

PhilWright and executesorder66 comments are interesting given some things that make Hacker News without such comments. I hope the second paragraph of this article explains things a bit more: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1189286 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1189286 The people that invented RISC, SPARC and MIPS namely, wrote some books teaching computer architecture that had a large effect on academia, industry, etc. This course is based on their advanced work. You get the information for free. It's in PDF form for easy reading. Great to get stuff for free that some people paid a lot of money to learn, eh? Useful too. One just confirmed an idea my past year of HW research had about 180nm being sweet spot for open-source HW efforts: Pentium 4 was done on it albeit full-custom and with Intel level of expertise. Should be able to do plenty at that node in 2015 with application-specific designs. The 130 node required physical verification tied to synthesis but 180-350 might work with Qflow synthesis. Seeing what P4 achieved. I also have an upper bound on what eventual full-custom would likely achieve. I'm extra confident in my recommendation despite never having built an ASIC. Thanks Thomas. :)

uulbiy 11y ago
The content of the lecture notes[1] seem good, although I don't really like the presentation that much. Also, its difficult to follow just the notes without watching or listening to the lectures. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the online education websites (Coursera, EdX, etc.) Last year I took "The Hardware/Software Interface"[2] on Coursera and it was great. [1]: Direct link to PDFs https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lectures/pdfs/ https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lect... [2]: Details: https://www.coursera.org/course/hwswinterface https://www.coursera.org/course/hwswinterface Course content: https://class.coursera.org/hwswinterface-002 https://class.coursera.org/hwswinterface-002
- Zuikaku 11y ago
  As someone who very recently took this course (around 6 months ago to be exact), his flow of lecture is jarring if you aren't paying attention (and the confusion of the slides accentuates this), but the raw content is still very very useful (revising for this exam was easier than some others). While I'm not able to share them with you, IC also has a system of recorded lectures, which makes these even easier to follow.

maxrev17 11y ago

Imperial bants!

johnflan 11y ago

CATE shudders

OJFord 11y ago
Better than 'BlackBoard' which other dept.s shell out so much for!

springogeek 11y ago

I took this course a couple years ago, and it is very well put together. Not something I expected to see on HN, but hey. If you have time to peruse it, I recommend it :)

ThomasMorrison 11y ago

you want to click on the "web backup link" to get the pdfs. here is the direct link: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lectures/pdfs https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lect...