Processor Architecture

Before you can tune a system you have to know what the hardware is doing. This track covers the microarchitecture, memory hierarchy and platform topology that every performance decision ultimately rests on.

8 courses · available in all eight cities and live online

Core concepts3 courses

ARC-1013 days CPU Pipelines & Microarchitecture How a modern out-of-order core fetches, schedules and retires instructions, and why that determines the performance ceiling of your code. Foundation Practitioner-taught SAR 6,750Next 18 Oct ARC-1023 days Cache & Memory Hierarchy The cache hierarchy from L1 to main memory, and the access patterns that decide whether your workload is fast or memory-bound. Foundation Practitioner-taught SAR 6,750Next 18 Oct ARC-1102 days SIMD & Vector Processing Data-parallel execution on CPUs: AVX-512, NEON and SVE, and how to get the compiler to actually use them. Practitioner Practitioner-taught SAR 5,250Next 15 Nov

Platform topology2 courses

ARC-2012 days NUMA & Multi-Socket Systems Non-uniform memory access, node topology discovery, and the placement decisions that quietly cost you throughput. Practitioner Practitioner-taught SAR 5,250Next 8 Nov ARC-2103 days PCIe & System Interconnects The fabric between CPU, memory and devices: PCIe generations, topology, and the bandwidth you actually get. Practitioner Practitioner-taught SAR 7,880Next 25 Oct

Instruction sets3 courses

ARC-3014 days x86-64 Systems Programming The x86-64 architecture from a systems perspective: privilege levels, paging, and the mechanisms the kernel is built on. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 12,000Next 11 Oct ARC-3024 days Arm64 Systems Programming AArch64 for systems engineers: exception levels, translation regimes and the memory model that trips up x86 developers. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 12,000Next 18 Oct ARC-3033 days RISC-V Systems Programming RISC-V privileged architecture for engineers arriving from x86 or Arm, including the state of the software ecosystem. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 9,000Next 18 Oct