CS/ECE 757 Advanced Computer Architecture II Spring 2005 Section 1 Instructor Mark D. Hill and T. A. Bhavesh Mehta URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs757/Spring2005/

Computer architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance and cost goals. This course qualitatively and quantitatively examines parallel computer design tradeoffs. We will learn both about challenges (e.g., why commercial and physical constraints make parallel processing hard) and successes (e.g., creating the illusion of a vast parallel memory).

This course is demanding with substantial readings and a project. It assumes that you did well in CS/ECE 752, because much of parallel processing builds on fast uniprocessors.