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Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture

Catalog Description

Modern high-performance computer structures, parallel and distributed hardwares and softwares, instruction level parallelism, memory hierarchy, fault tolerant computing, and future generation computers.

  • It is offerred by The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Number of Credits: 3.

  • Prerequisite: Ele548, Knowledge in computer architecture, and good programming skill. Substantial programming is required in this course.

  • Instructor: Prof. Qing Yang, who initiated the course.

  • Text book: Current computer architecture literature including but not limited to:
    "Measurement, Analysis and Performance Improvement of the Apache Web Server",
    `` A New Hierarchical Disk Architecture", IEEE Micro,
    ``RAPID-Cache --- A Reliable and Inexpensive Write Cache for High Performance Storage Systems",
    ``Minimizing area cost of on-chip cache memories by caching address tags",
    ``Designing on-chip cache using complement numbers",
    ``A memory interference model for regularly patterned multiple stream vector accesses,''
    ``The Prime-mapped Cache"

    ``STICS-----SCSI-To-IP Cache Storage"

    Course Plan for the Fall Semester of 2001

    1. Topics Covered in this course
    2. There will be two homework projects for this course, each accounts for 50% of the total grade.
    3. Homework #1
    4. Homework #2

    Please send your comments to Dr. Qing Yang