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COSC 6385 Computer Architecture - Fall 2008

General issues

Time	Monday and Wednesday 1.00pm - 2.30pm
Location	PGH 232
Begin	August 25
Textbook	John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, "Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach", 4th Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Note: 3rd edition of the book is not equivalent to the 4th edition.
Teaching Assistants:	Saber Feki ( sfeki [at] cs.uh.edu ) Mohamad Chaarawi ( mschaara [at] cs.uh.edu ) TA office hours: Tue 10-11am, Thu 1.30-2.30pm, PGH 526.
Office Hours	Mo, We 2-3 pm, PGH 524.
Exams	1 homework: 25% 3 quizes: 75% (25% each)





Slides and additional material

• Lectures of August 25: Introduction and organizational issues
  
• Lectures of August 27: Performance Measurement
  
• Lecture of September 1: no lecture, labor day.
• Lecture of September 3: Instruction Set Archictures. Online only, video of the lecture avalaible here.
• Lecture of September 8: Memory Hierarchis (I). Online only, video of the lecture available here , the exercises at the end of the lecture are shown in this video.
• Lecture of September 10: Memory Hierarchies (II). Online only, video of the lecture available here
• Lecture of September 15: Cancelled due to Hurricane Ike. Make up class will be announced soon.
• Lecture of September 17: Recap of lectures 3, 4 and 5. No new slides.
• Lecture of September 21st: Pipelining (I).
  Here is the solution to the exercise posted on August 27.
  Here is another typical exercise for the quiz.
  Here are the reading assignments for the 1st quiz.
• Lecture of September 23rd: Pipelining (II).
  
• Lecture of September 29th: Recap and homework announcment.
  Here is the source code to be used, and the file ImageAnalysis.sh
• Lecture of October 1st: 1st quiz.
• Lecture of October 6th: Tomasulo's Algorithm (I).
  
• Lecture of October 8th: Tomasulo's Algorithm (II).
  
• Lecture of October 13th: Software ILP.
  Here are the reading assignments for the 2nd quiz.
• Lecture of October 15th: Discussion of the 1st quiz. (no slides)
  
• Lecture of October 20th: Rehearsal for the 2nd Quiz. Here are solutions to the exercises discussed in the class and some additional exercises.
• Lecture of October 22th: Vector Processors
• Lecture of October 27th: 2nd quiz.
• Lecture of October 29th: Multi Processor Systems (I)
• Lecture of November 3rd: Multi Processor Systems (II)
• Lecture of November 5th: Multi Processor Systems (III)
• Lecture of November 10th: Discussion of the 2nd quiz.
• Lecture of November 12th: Multi Processor Systems (IV)
• Lecture of November 17th: I/O Operations
  Here are the final reading assignments for the 3rd. File I/O is not considered for the final quiz.
• Lecture of November 19th: Virtualization
• Lecture of November 24th: Recap for the 3rd Quiz.
• Lecture of November 26th: no lecture, Thanksgiving holiday.
• Lecture of December 1st: History of Computers
• Lecture of December 3rd: 3rd Quiz.

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