CS 423 - Computer Architecture

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Lecture Contents (Tentative)

Begins	Lecture Contents	Lecture Slides
Feb 6^th	Introduction	Set1
Feb 13^th	MIPS ISA MIPS ALU Understanding performance	Set2
Feb 20^th	MIPS basic architecture Pipelining MIPS Dealing with data hazards Reducing branch costs	Set3 HW1 out
Feb 27^th	Intro to superscalar	HW1 in
Mar 5^th	A MIPS SS processor model	Set4 HW2 out
Mar 12^th	SS processor model SS front end issues	Set5
Mar 19^th	SS backend issues VLIW architectures	HW2 in Set6
Mar 26^th	Midterm on Monday, March 26th during regular class hours 10:40-12:00 in EB204. Memory	Set7 Midterm HW3 out
Apr 2^nd	Memory Introduction to Multiprocessors	Set8
Apr 9^th	Cache Coherency The March to Multicore & Manycore Power Efficiency, DRAM Access Latency	Set9
Apr 16^th	Multicore programming: Shared Memory Systems CMP Architecture	HW3 in Set10
Apr 23^rd	No Class on Monday, April 23^rd Parallel Programming Concepts	Set11 OpenMP
Apr 30^th	No Class on Tuesday, May 1^st Design Choices Intel, AMD, IBM, On-chip Cache Hierarchy	Set 12
May 7^th	Research Topics	HW4 out scientific_sequential.c Set 13
May 14^th	Tuesday, May 15^th is the last day of classes Final on Wednesday, May 16th at 1:00PM	HW4 in