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CDA 5106 - Advanced Computer Architecture I
Sring 2002
MW 7:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
CSB 221
Prof. Euripides Montagne
Office: CSB 239 (407) 823-2684
Office Hours: MTWR 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
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Office: CSB-111/CSB103 (407)823-2524/4733
Office Hours: M & R 6:00-7:00 p.m.
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Course Outline
The goal of the course is to teach advanced concepts and design principles of
computer architecture. We will study the techniques of quantitative analysis
and evaluation of modern computing systems. The course also prepares the student
for the Ph. D. qualifying examination in the School of Computer Science in the
area of computer architecture, but does not necessarily cover all the topics
listed in the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Phase I Syllabus.
| Architecture Classification |
| Instruction Set Principles |
| Instruction Level Parallelism |
| Pipelining |
| Systolic Arrays and Data Flow |
| VLIW and Superscalar Processors |
| Memory Hierarchy |
| Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism |
| Storage Systems (RAID, MEMS) |
| Interconnection Networks and Clusters |
| EPIC |
| Non-standard computing paradigms will be examined |
Prerequisites:
CDA 4150 - Computer Architecture.
Reference Guide
The textbook for this course is: J. Hennesy and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture:
A Quantitative Approach", Morgan Kaufman, 2nd edition, 1998. This course
includes as well a number of readings from research papers. These papers will
be distributed in class.
Style of Class Meetings
Class meetings will not consist of traditional lectures, with the instructor
doing most of the talking and the student doing most of the listening. Rather,
meetings will consist of discussions on each topic and the instructor will help
guide the discussion by asking questions.
| 10 % | Homework |
| 10 % | Class Participation + summaries |
| 30 % | Exam |
| 40 % | Research Project |
| 10 % | Paper presentation |
| First midterm exam |
Feb. 25th, 2002 |
| Final exam | April 18th, 2002 |
| Homework # | Problems | Due Date | Solutions |
| 1 | From Book: 1.1, 1.2, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 | Wed. Feb. 20, 2002 | HW 1 |
| 2 | click here to download pdf file | Wed. April 10, 2002 | HW2 |
| Project proposal Due date is 03/06/02 |
| Final project Due date is 04/10/02 |
| Withdrawal Deadline is March 1st |
| Spring Holidays are |
| * Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 21 |
| * Spring Break March 11-16 |
| * Founders Day Honors Convocation April 3 |
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