Memory Hierarchy Courses and Certifications

SNIAVideo

Advantages of CXL for Storage Applications

Explore CXL memory pooling, tiering benefits, and datacenter storage applications for efficient processor-memory-accelerator communication.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OpenFabrics Alliance

Exploring OFA Sunfish with CXL-FAM Appliances and Memory Disaggregation

Explore OFA Sunfish integration with CXL-FAM appliances through practical examples and learn how CXL enables disaggregated compute for next-gen data centers.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SNIAVideo

Accelerating AI with Real-World CXL Platforms

Discover how Compute Express Link (CXL) solutions address AI memory bottlenecks through real-world applications, performance benchmarks, and OEM customer implementations in modern data centers.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

HMSDK - Enhancing Software Support for CXL Memory

Explore HMSDK, an open-source toolkit for optimizing CXL memory placement in heterogeneous systems, featuring kernel upstreaming and tiered memory management techniques.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Performance Engineering of Software Systems

9 ratings

This is an 18-unit class that provides a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Parallel Programming with CUDA

Write CUDA programs for Nvidia GPUs: organize threads, blocks and grids, move data between host and global memory, and exploit shared, constant and register memory.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Neso Academy

Computer Organization and Architecture

3 ratings

Master computer systems fundamentals through comprehensive coverage of architecture, memory hierarchy, number systems, and instruction processing with solved problems.

• YouTube
• 17 hours 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data-Oriented C++ in Scientific Programming

Write efficient, maintainable C++ for data-intensive work: use compile-time execution, memory-aware data-oriented design, and C++17 parallel algorithms on multi-core CPUs and GPUs.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Advanced Data Structures

1 rating

This course covers major results and current directions of research in data structure.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

I/O-efficient algorithms

60 ratings at Coursera

Design algorithms for data too big for RAM: analyze the I/O model, build cache-aware and cache-oblivious matrix transposition, LRU eviction, I/O-efficient MergeSort, and B-trees.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Birla Institute Of Technology And Science–Pilani (BITS–Pilani)

MIPS Computer Architecture and Performance Optimization

Trace how MIPS instructions become hardware: design ALUs, single- and multi-cycle datapaths, resolve pipeline hazards, and tune caches, memory hierarchy, and storage performance.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fundamentals of Computer Organization

Learn how a CPU executes instructions: single-cycle and 5-stage pipelines, structural, data and control hazards, branch prediction, out-of-order execution, and cache locality.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Computer System Design: Advanced Concepts of Modern Microprocessors

Learn about advanced computer design concepts, including how to make modern multicore-based computers both fast and energy efficient.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Computer Systems Design for Energy Efficiency

Learn how to design modern computers to improve the speed, performance and energy efficiency of your programs.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

IIT Guwahati;  NPTEL

Multi-Core Computer Architecture

Explore multi-core computer architecture through memory subsystems, inter-core interconnects, tiled chip multiprocessors, and Network-on-Chip design.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course