CS 5700 - Computer Systems - Fall 2008

Prerequisite

• CS 2700 Computer Architecture and Organization or equivalent background with consent of instructor

• J.L. Hennessy and D.A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (4th edition), Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.

• Homework Assignments - 40%
   
  Five homework handouts

• Test 1 - 20%       Tuesday, Sep. 23

• Test 2 - 20%       Thursday, Oct. 28
  (Fall break: Nov. 22-30)

• Final - 20%       Tuesday, Dec. 9, 5:30-7:30pm
  

• Tests and final are open book open notes.

• Grading
  
  • A, A- for >= 90%
    
  • B-, B, B+, for >= 70% and < 90%
    
  • C-, C, C+, for >= 60% and < 70%
    
  • F, for < 60%

Approximate Distribution of Time

Chapter 1: Introduction    1.5 weeks


Chapter 2 + Appendix A: Instruction-level parallelism (I)   5 weeks


Chapter 3 + Appendix B: Instruction-level parallelism (II)    2 weeks


Chapter 4: Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism    1 week


Chapter 5 + Appendix C: Memory    2 weeks


Chapter 6: Storage systems    1 week


Other: Problem and review sessions + tests    2.5 weeks