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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.
Apr 19 Quiz 3 scores posted on grades server.
Solutions posted online.
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
avialable online.
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 at this location.
Jan 31 Welcome to 411! Please note the course textbook is recommended, not required.
Staff
| Name
| Office
| E-mail
| Office Hours
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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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Web Accessibility
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