Its been even longer :)
I love the rollercoaster of Life! Its landed me from being an IT professional in India to a Graduate Student in the United States.
This is not a highly technical post. Its just about some of the interesting stuff I'm doing as a Grad Student.
Well for one its my Computer Architecture Course. Its a challenging one and I'm learning a lot. I never thought i'd be this interested in processors! Dr. Tyson, makes learing fun!
Our first assignment was to simulate a pipeline in C. This was a 5 Stage pipeline that accounted for data hazards by detection and forwarding and for control hazards by using a G-Share branch predictor. See now a few months back when I was busy writing webapps, this would have sounded Martian to me :)
The second assignment, which I'm still submitting, and re-submitting... and probably will be doing till the very end is not unlike the chaos involved in the rollercoaster of life! Its an out of order exection pipeline, like that of the Pentium pro which means although Instructions are issued and retired in program order, they could be scheduled and executed in any order. There is an Interim stage which renames instructions so as to take care of data hazards.
Its an enriching experience!
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And I am heavily struggling with the first one.... lets see when can I catch the flag....
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