Final 411

amdahl's law as it relates to hardware, scaling, weak and strong scaling

iron law of computer performance. Understand terms of iron law.

Computer memory hierarchy. Describe l1, l2, l3, main memory, storage. Capacity vs performance as you go down hierarchy. Capacity and performance

Steps to execute cuda program

Stages of riscv pipeline

Primary purpose of virtual memory and an example (swapping: how virtual memory is bad). Describe how virtual memory is used, and what are the benefits of virtual memory

How cache performance was measured, components. Metrics: cache misses, memory stall cycles

Differences between cpus and gpus. Architectural design differences. Gpus have ALUs. High bandwidth memory. Rasterizer. Rendering hardware. PCI express interface. SIMD vs SIMT. General Purpose Graphics Processor (2018)

Sources of cache misses; what causes cache misses

Describe results for homework. Cache sizes and associativity

Study the TLB, as part of virtual memory

Flynn's taxonomy of computer architecture