General Purpose and High Performance Systems

Within this specialisation, you will learn how to develop systems that are targeted for high-performance computation for different types of applications.

Students take the following courses in this specialisation:

• Computer Architecture (Special Topics)
• VLSI Systems on Chip
• Introduction to High Performance Computing

Graduation projects

Some examples of thesis projects related to this specialisation are:

• Development of a workload set for multi-core architectures
• Suitability of GPUs, programmed with CUDA, for High Performance Computation
• Energy efficient branch prediction for the cell broadband engine (Cell BE), an advanced multi-core processor
• A hardware accelerator for the Sparse Matrix-Vector (SMVM) kernel of OpenFOAM, a sophisticated scientific computational fluid dynamics tool
• ρ-VEX: the architectural design and implementation of a reconfigurable and extensible open source Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor