Computing Hardware Architecture & Performance

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Table of Contents

Computing Hardware Architecture & Performance

Course Overview

Tour Guide

Bottlenecks & Balance

Yin & Yang

Write Once Run Everywhere?

Latency & Bandwidth

Latency & Bandwidth

Platform: Software View

Platform: PCI, AGP

PPT Slide

PPT Slide

PPT Slide

Platform: Data Management

Platform: The Points

Isn’t this a graphics course?

CPU: Overview

CPU: Overview

CPU, Cache, and Memory

CPU, Cache, and Memory

Memory: Cache & Logical Flow

Memory: Cache & Physical Flow

Memory: Allocation & Pools

Memory: Allocation & Pools

Memory: Vertex Arrays

Graphics: Pipe

Graphics: Akeley Taxonomy

Graphics: Hardware

Graphics: Performance

Graphics: Framerate Quantization

Graphics: Framerate Quantization

Graphics: Fastpath

Graphics: Fastpath Example

Graphics: Fastpath Points

Graphics: Fastpath Points

Graphics Hardware: Testing

Graphics Hardware: “Is-Fast”

Think Globally, Act Locally

Author: Keith Cok