Computing and network architectures

General

• Hardware software interface
• Instruction set design
• Modelling of computer architectures
• System architecture

Single data stream architectures

• SISD and MISD architectures
• Pipeline processors
• RISC / CISC, VLIW architectures

Multiprocessing and alternative architectures

• SIMD, MIMD, EPIC
• Systolic architecture
• Interconnection architectures
• Interconnection networks (hypercube, shuffle-exchange, mesh, crossbar)
• Shared memory systems
• Cache coherence
• Memory models and memory consistency
• Array and vector processors
• Associative processors
• Clusters and grid considerations
• Alternative architectures (e.g. dataflow, neural nets, analog)

Performance enhancements

• Superscalar architecture
• Branch prediction
• Prefetching
• Speculative execution
• Multithreading
• Scalability

Architecture for networks and distributed systems

• Attributes
• Capacity
• Link Capacity
• Link Types
• Link to Physical Media in Network

Network architecture and design

• Access schemes, buses, Ethernet, ,internet)
• Personal Area Network (PAN)
• Local Area Network (LAN)
• Campus
• Metropolitan (MAN)
• Wide Area Network (WAN)
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Other
• Network management and monitoring
• Layered protocol design, ISO/OSI, IEEE 802
• Impact of architectural issues on distributed algorithms
• Network computing
• Distributed multimedia

Application based architectures

• Process control
• Real time and embedded
• Signal processing systems
• Portable devices
• Special servers

-- Main.nova - 28 Jun 2005
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