Explores multithreading in computer architecture, focusing on pipeline utilization and performance impact in various techniques, including blocked and fine-grained multithreading.
Discusses scheduling internals, metrics, and policies in computer systems, emphasizing efficiency and the complexities of modern multi-core architectures.
Explores parallelism in programming, emphasizing trade-offs between programmability and performance, and introduces shared memory parallel programming using OpenMP.
Covers the components of a processor, ISA classifications, specific ISAs like MIPS, assembly language examples, and the importance of machine instruction regularity.
