Computer Science 252.
Graduate Computer Architecture.
(4 units)
Spring 1998
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15-May
All project comments and final grades have been mailed. If you
have not received this, mail me soon. If it is possible for you to make your
project paper available to others outside the Berkeley domain, please do so.
Remember, though, if you have something that you are not supposed to distribute
(for example, BDTI code), make available only the parts that are OK to
distribute.
6-May
252 poster
session area information is available.
23-Apr
Quiz 2
stats are available.
3-Apr
NOW login
instructions are available.
11-Mar
Here's how to domain-limit
web access for projects.
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Catalog Description
Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites:
CS 152. Graduate
survey of contemporary computer organizations covering: early systems, CPU
design, instruction sets, control, processors, busses, ALU, memory, pipelined
computers, multiprocessors, and case studies. Term paper or project required.
Expanded Description
This course focuses on the techniques of
quantitative analysis and evaluation of modern computing systems, such as the
selection of appropriate benchmarks to reveal and compare the performance of
alternative design choices in system design. The emphasis is on the major
component subsystems of high performance computers: pipelining, instruction
level parallelism, memory hierarchies, input/output, and network-oriented
interconnections. Students will undertake a major computing system analysis and
design project of their own choosing.
Course Grading
10% Class Participation
30% Homeworks (work in pairs)
30% Examinations (2 Quizzes)
30% Research Project (work in pairs)
Departmental
Grading Guidelines for Graduate courses
Instructors, Spring 1998
Location
Lecture: Wed, Fri 2 - 3:30 PM, 203 McLaughlin Hall
Roster
Click here to see
who's who.
Quizzes
Past quizzes and
solutions are available.
Communication
The class newsgroup is ucb.class.cs252
Textbook
Note that the 2nd edition is significantly different than the 1st edition,
and it is not recommended that you attempt to use the 1st edition as a
textbook for this course.
The errata
sheet is available!!!
The first reader to report an error in the book and supply a correction that
the authors incorporate in a future printing will be rewarded with a $1.00
bounty. To submit a bug, send a message to arc2bugs@mkp.com with the page
number and line number of the error in the subject line. (Check the errata sheet
first.) Typically these bugs are reviewed by the both publisher and the authors
about once a year before checks are issued, so please be patient.
Course Projects
Click here to
see a list of suggested projects.
Project web
pages for Spring 1998.
Project
presentation schedule
Course Schedule
Lecture notes will be available in postscript, pdf, and
powerpoint formats. Postscript files are good for printing, but pdf files are
usually better for viewing on the screen. (Powerpoint is for instructors who
want to give lectures themselves based on CS 252. Note that I still use a
Macintosh, so they were created in PowerPoint 4.0. A few lectures I have also
put up in the newer Office 98 Powerpoint--98, not 97--also on a Mac, in case
that helps Microserfs.)
Note that sometimes ghostview has trouble properly displaying postscript
files, although they often print okay even when that occurs. Every effort will
be made to get the notes on the web prior to the lecture. Note, however, that
the notes may be updated slightly following the lecture. Click here for
instructions regarding how to view pdf files.
