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Announcements
Important announcements related to the course will be posted here. Please check this page daily.
- May 17 - Final exam scores have been posted on the
grades server. Project 3 scores and final grades should be
ready by Fri or Sat.
- May 10 - Please enter your course evaluation by Friday May 11
here. Thanks!
- May 10 Quiz 4 & solutions
posted online here.
Scores have been posted to grades server.
- May 7 Fixed some typos for practice problem 6
(question 1 description), and example quiz 4 (solution to part D).
- May 1 Project 2 deadline extended to Thu, May 3rd.
Submit server now accepting Project 3 cache study writeups,
due Fri, May 11th.
Quiz 4 scheduled for
Tue, May 8th. Quiz will cover multiprocessor cache coherence.
Scores & solutions for Midterm 2 posted
online here.
- Apr 19 Quiz 3 scores posted on grades server. Solutions
posted online here.
- Apr 16 Posted additional sample quizzes & tests for
Quiz 3 and Midterm 2 online here.
Several questions from past midterm 2 materials may be useful
for preparing for quiz 3.
- Apr 16 Project 1 scores posted on grades server.
- Apr 12 Midterm 2 scheduled for
Thu, Apr 26th. Midterm will cover virtual memory, branch prediction,
and dynamic instruction execution.
Practice problems and sample tests available
online here.
- Apr 12 Project 2 posted, due Tue May 1st.
Submit server up and ready for submissions.
- Apr 12 Quiz 3 scheduled for
Thu, Apr 19th. Quiz will cover virtual memory & branch prediction.
Practice problems and sample quizzes available
online here.
- Mar 27 Midterm 1 scores posted on grades server.
- Mar 14 Project 1 posted, due Tue Apr 10th.
- Mar 5 Midterm 1 scheduled for
Thu, Mar 8th. Midterm will cover material in Quiz 1 & 2, plus
cache organization. Practice problems and sample midterms available
online here.
- Feb 27 Quiz 2 scheduled for
Tue, Feb 28th. Quiz will cover basic pipelining.
Practice problems and sample quizzes available
online here.
- Feb 13 Quiz 1 scheduled for
Tue, Feb 14th. Quiz will cover reliability, performance,
and Amdahl's Law. Practice problems and sample quizzes available
online here.
- Jan 31 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
| Tue & Thu 3:15-4:15pm
| | Chenglin Chen
| TA office
| chenglin@cs.umd.edu
| Tue 3:30-4:30pm
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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 3120, Tue & Thu 12:30-1:45pm
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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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