CMSC 411 Computer Architecture, Summer 2012(draft)

• Expect to receive lots of email from Dr. Hugue, sent to cmsc411-0201-sum2012@coursemail.umd.edu with urgent announcements, lecture clarifications and commentary. Check the CMSC 411 course pages on elms for announcements, TA office hours, and additional resources. All project-related questions will be answered on the cs forum forum.cs.umd.edu to ensure all students equal access to the information. In general, answers will not be emailed by the TA.

• Explicit updates of project resources will be made on my user pages (http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/meesh/411/).

• Lectures (located in CSIC): 
• MTWThF....11:00-12:20pm CSIC1115   
• 07/9/2012--08/17/2012;
• Instructor: Michelle Hugue 
• Email: meeshATumd.edu 
• Office: 1109a AV Williams 
• Hours: Regular and by appointment 
• Class accounts: Unix accounts will be on the GRACE ( Glue Research and Academic Computing Environment) cluster. Development tools, such as Eclipse, and JAVA 1.6.1 are available on the cluster; we will grade your projects using the submit server. To use the cluster, you will need a TerpConnectn account. If you do not have one, or if you are not sure if you have one, you must request one asap.
• <Book(s): Computer Architecture: A Quantatitive Approach, 5ed by John Hennessy and David Patterson. (Required ) 

• 2 75 minute Tests: July tbd, August TBD, 2012 (18% each)
• Cumulative Final Exam: August 16, 2012 (2 hours) (46%)  
• Room: CSI1115 
• See permanent webpage for worksheets and other study aids. 
• Project:  
• One pipeline simulation project, in C. (18%) Firm Due Date: 11:59PM, August 15. 2012 (plus 48 hours grace).

• Lots of useful information appears on the permanent webpage
• UNIX, Emacs and other Tutorials 
• Tutorials 
• Debugging Notes