Explores speculative memory consistency, challenges, solutions, performance overhead, and the impact of dynamic fence enforcement on achieving high performance.
Provides an overview of computer architecture, focusing on the von Neumann architecture and its components, including the CPU and memory management units.
Explores parallelism in programming, emphasizing trade-offs between programmability and performance, and introduces shared memory parallel programming using OpenMP.
Covers the basics of processes in operating systems, including creation, memory layout, state transitions, virtualization, APIs, and program execution.
