Homepage of CS 654 -- Advanced Computer Architecture -- Spring 08

Instructor: Andreas Stathopoulos, andreas@cs.wm.edu, ph: 1-3483

Place: First meeting is at Morton Hall 342.
Starting Tuesday January 22, our meeting room will be MS 002

Time: We meet at: TR 12:30-1:50pm.

Office hours: TR 2:00--4:00pm in MS 104B.

Textbook: Computer Architecture: a quantitative approach, Fourth Edition, 2006 by J. Hennessy and D. Patterson

Here is the syllabus in pdf format.

The lecture material is adapted from Berkeley's popular offering of this course (CS 252 -- which is based on Prof. Patterson's slides).
Here are our : Lectures

Homework assignments

Here is homework 1 due Feb 12 midnight.

Here is homework 2 due Feb 28 midnight.

Here is homework 3 due Mar 25 midnight.

The fourth homework will be due April 8 midnight. You are supposed to write 1/2 to 1 page summary or bullet points summarizing the paper: "Simultaneous Multithreading: A Platform for Next-generation Processors," Susan J. Eggers et al, IEEE Micro, 1997

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