Dr' YuanShun Dai

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• Dr. Yuan-Shun Dai
• Computer Science 504
• Fall 2004
• Webpage http//www.cs.iupui.edu/ydai/ (Click
  teaching)

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CICS 504 Course Focus

• Understanding the design techniques, machine
  structures, technology factors, evaluation
  methods that will determine the form of computers
  in 21st Century

Parallelism
Technology
Programming
Languages
Applications
Interface Design (ISA)
Computer Architecture Instruction Set
Design Organization Hardware/Software Boundary
Compilers
Operating
Measurement Evaluation
History
Systems
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Topic Coverage

• Textbook
• 1) Hennessy and Patterson, Computer
  Architecture A Quantitative Approach, 3rd Ed.,
  2001
• 2) Xie, Dai, Poh, Computing Systems
  Reliability, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004 (No
  need to buy, I will copy some useful parts to you
  in class).
• 1 week Review Fundamentals of Computer
  Architecture (Ch. 1), Pipelining, Performance,
  Caches, Virtual Memory, Cost, Ics
• 1 week Memory Hierarchy (Chapter 5)
• 1 week Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Queuing
  Theory, (Ch. 2 of CSR)
• 1 week I/O and Storage (Ch. 7)
• 2 weeks Networks and Clusters (Ch. 8)
• 2 weeks Multiprocessors TLP (Ch. 6)
• 1 week Grid (Ch. 7 of CSR)
• 2 weeks Instruction Sets, DSPs, SIMD (Ch. 2).
  
• 1 week ILP Dynamic Exploitation with Hardware.
  (Ch 3)
• 1 week ILP Exploiting with Software. (Ch 4)
• Rest Project strategy meetings, presentations,
  quizzes

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What do you care?

• Homework (Quantity vs. Quality) 10
• Group Project (Free Topic) 30
• Quiz 1 (Open book) 30
• Quiz 2 (Open book) 30
• Class Participation (as you like) 0
• No Final Exam
• Scoring (Get what you have Paid)
• 95-100 (A) 90-94 (A) 85-89 (A-)
• 80-84 (B) 75-79 (B) 70-74 (B-)
• 65-69 (C) 60-64 (C)
• 50-60 (D)
• lt50 (F)

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What do I care?

• View me as your friend
• Prerequisite Computer Architecture (402)
• Content (Useful Updated)
• Self-Learning Ability
• Quiz (Dont leave blank)
• Scoring (Dont worry)
• Adjust if most of you are low
• Adapt Average Around 80

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Group Project

• Work in a group
• Pick your own partner
• Select a related topic by yourselves
• I will give you some suggestions in your topics
• Some group meetings
• Oral Presentation (30)
• Project Paper (70)