Time: W 6:10-8:50pm
Place: Hill 254

Instructor: Thu D. Nguyen
Email: tdnguyen@cs.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Monday 4-5:30pm
Office: CoRE 326

TA: Chunling Hu
Email: chunling@paul.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Th 3-4pm
Office: Hill 413

Mailing list: dcs_505@rams.rutgers.edu
Newgroup: ru.nb.dcs.class.505 (news server: news-lcsr.rutgers.edu)

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Text: John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3rd Edition. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003. ISBN 1-55860-596-7.

Pre-requisites:

• Undergraduate courses in operating systems and architecture. Undergraduate course in compiler helpful.
• C and Assembly language programming.

Your Expected Load: At this point, the course is still evolving so this is not set in stone. However, you can expect the following approximate load. All readings must be done before the corresponding lectures. Each student is required to submit a summary per assigned paper before the lecture starts. My previous 519 course contains examples of such summaries (follow the "View Summaries" link for each paper posted under "Schedule").

• Presentation: Research papers listed as required reading will be presented by students. Each student must present at least 1 paper.
• Tests: 1 midterm, 1 final.
• HWs (pencil & paper and programming): 2.
• Project: 1.

Approximate Grade Break Down: 25% midterm, 25% final, 10% presentation, 15% hws, 25% project.