Branch Prediction Courses and Certifications

Exploiting Modern Microarchitectures - Meltdown, Spectre, & Other Hardware Attacks

Explore modern microarchitecture vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre. Learn about hardware attacks, their mitigations, and the industry's approach to balancing performance and security.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Computer Architecture

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In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors. All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.

• Coursera
• 2 days 1 hour 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

High Performance Computer Architecture

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The HPCA course covers performance measurement, pipelining, and improved parallelism through various means.

• Udacity
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Chalmers University of Technology

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
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Graz University of Technology

Physical and Advanced Side-Channel Attacks

Explore physical and software-based side-channel attacks, their countermeasures, and real-world applications. Gain practical skills in mounting attacks and developing resilient systems.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

IEEE

SPECTECTOR - Principled Detection of Speculative Information Flows

Principled detection of speculative information flows in computer systems, focusing on security against Spectre-like attacks through speculative non-interference and symbolic execution techniques.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Java

JVM Benchmarking Techniques and Pitfalls - Lecture by Aleksey Shipilev

Explore JVM benchmarking techniques with expert Aleksey Shipilev, covering optimization, performance analysis, and common pitfalls in Java performance testing.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Black Hat

Capturing 0Day Exploits With Perfectly Placed Hardware Traps

Innovative hardware-assisted approach to prevent control-flow hijack attacks, using processor features for real-time detection and prevention of abnormal branches in Windows and Linux systems.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Practical Ghostbusting - Meltdown, Spectre and You

Learn about Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, their risks, and practical mitigation strategies in this accessible deep dive into modern processor security issues.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Performance Optimizations in the Wild

Explore RavenDB's recent performance enhancements, covering low-level optimizations, algorithm selection, and strategies for significant speed improvements in database operations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

IEEE

Spectre Attacks Exploiting Speculative Execution

Explore speculative execution vulnerabilities in modern processors, their impact on system security, and potential countermeasures to protect against Spectre attacks.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

code::dive conference

The Life of a CPU Instruction

Explore the journey of a CPU instruction through modern processor architecture, covering out-of-order execution, caching, and branch prediction in this informative talk.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

code::dive conference

CPU-Friendly Code

Explore CPU architecture, cache locality, branch prediction, and OS concepts to optimize code performance and efficiency beyond Big-O notation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

JSConf

JavaScript Level 9000

Explore advanced JavaScript concepts from JIT compiler perspective, including garbage collection, data types, optimizations, and game engine applications. Gain deep insights into JS performance.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

CppNow

C++ Performance in Practice - Align, Vectorise, Cache, Jump!

Explore hardware-driven C++ performance optimization techniques including memory alignment, SIMD, cache-friendliness, and branch prediction with code examples and benchmarks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk