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Announcements
Important announcements related to the course will be posted here. Please check this page daily.
- May 22 Final exam scores & grades have been posted to
the grades server. Have a nice summer!
- May 13 Sample final exam and
solution posted.
- May 12
Final Exam scheduled for
Saturday, May 14th from 1:30pm-3:30pm
in CSIC 1122 (same room as lecture)
- May 12 Practice problem 6
and solution posted.
- May 6 CourseEvalUM
is open through Wednesday, May 11. Please fill out an evaluation for this
and all your other courses.
- May 6 Project 3 posted, due May 11th.
- May 6 Project 2 late deadline extended to May 9th.
- May 2 Midterm 2 scores posted on grades server.
- Apr 27 Midterm 2 solution
posted.
- Apr 21 TA office hours today cancelled due to illness.
- Apr 20 Project 2 posted, due Fri, May 6th.
Submit server ready for submissions.
- Apr 20 TA office hours today cancelled due to illness.
- Apr 18 Practice problems 5 and
solution on dynamic
scheduling posted.
- Apr 17 Midterm 2 scheduled for
Mon, Apr 25th, as announced in class.
- Apr 10 Quiz 3 pushed back to Wed Apr 13th. It will be cache
and virtual memory. See Practice Problems 4.
- Apr 8 Practice problems 4 and
solution on cache & virtual
memory posted.
- Apr 6 Quiz 3 and Midterm 2 pushed back to Mon Apr 11th & Mon Apr 18th,
respective.
- Mar 29 Project 1 posted, due Tue, Apr 19th.
Submit server ready for submissions.
- Mar 18 No lecture today. Please read
An Interview with Fran Allen to see an insider
perspective on several early IBM architectures & compilers.
Happy Spring Break!
- Mar 16 Midterm 1 solution
posted.
- Mar 15 Fixed minor error in problem 6d
solution for
Practice problems 3 (predictor 00 now remains 1 for last 3 branches).
- Mar 9 Practice problems 3 posted.
- Mar 9 Midterm 1 scheduled for Wed, March 16.
- Mar 7 Quiz 2 solution posted.
- Feb 25 Practice problems 2 posted.
Quiz 2 scheduled for Wed, March 2nd.
- Feb 25 Lecture 6 slides updated
to discuss logic for checking pipeline stalls.
- Feb 18 Quiz 1 solution posted.
- Feb 8 Homework 1 posted online here.
- Jan 26 Lecture cancelled due to campus closure/impending snow.
- Jan 21 Welcome to 411! Please note the course textbook is recommended, not required.
Staff
| Name
| Office
| E-mail
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| Chau-Wen Tseng
| AVW 4135
| tseng@cs.umd.edu
| Mon & Wed 2-3pm
| | Khoa Doan
| TA office
| khoadoan@cs.umd.edu
| Wed 5-6pm, Thu 4:45-5:45pm
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Information
| Course Description
| Introduction to computer architecture. Topics include
microprocessors, pipelining, memory hierarchies, and parallelism.
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| Location
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CSIC 1122, MWF 3:00-3:50pm
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Textbook
(Recommended)
| J. Hennessy and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (4th Edition), Morgan Kaufmann, 2007
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| Acknowledgements
| Slides courtesy of Alan Sussman, Pete Keleher, et al.
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