CS 282 (KAUST) - Spring
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KAUST Office: Building 1, Room 4210, Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm KFUPM Office: Building 22, Room 328, Phone: 03-8604642 Syllabus | Lectures | Assignments | Tools and Simulators Announcements Project Presentations: Tuesday May 18, 9 am - 2:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1 Midterm Exam: Tuesday April 20 at 12 - 3 PM, Room 2322 (Lecture Hall 1) Project document updated on March 11 - Proposal due on March 23 Read Appendix A: Pipelining Basic and Intermediate Concepts Read Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Computer Design, H&P textbook Assistants Sharan Kalwani sharan.kalwani@kaust.edu.sa Building 14, Level 4, Room 10, Phone 808-1109 Ying Qian ying.qian@kaust.edu.sa Building 1, Level 0, Room 0125, Phone 808-0223 Dinesh Kaushik dinesh.kaushik@kaust.edu.sa Building 1, Level 0, Room 0117, Phone 808-0231 Questions related to assignments and grading should be directed to the teaching assistants. You may also seek the help of the teaching assistants on your projects. Textbook Catalog Description Prerequisite: CS 209. Credits: (3-0-3) Advanced topics in cache hierarchies, memory systems, storage and IO systems, interconnection networks and message-passing multiprocessor systems (clusters). Issues such as locality, coarse-grain parallelism, synchronization, overlapping communication with computation, hardware/software interfaces, performance/power trade-offs and reliability. Characteristics of modern processors that affect system architecture. Exam Schedule Midterm Exam: Tuesday April 20, 12 noon - 2:15 pm, Building 9, Room 3131 Grading Assignments: 20% Project: 50% Midterm Exam: 30% Course Topics
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