| Time | Lecture Topics | Hands-On Exercise |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Introduction and Course Overview | Logging on and timing things |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00 | Applications Hardware Performance Counters and Metrics |
PAPI Hardware Performance Counters |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Architectural Features | Pipelining |
| 15:00 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 15:30 | Loop optimization | Loop ordering and unrolling |
John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture. Communications of the ACM. February 2019. (Includes video of Turing Lecture at ISCA)