Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:48:59 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.1 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:50:18 GMT Content-length: 2246 V22.0036 - Computer Architecture - Fall 1996

V22.0036 - Computer Architecture - Fall 1996

Basic Information

Instructor:

Ralph Grishman
office: 715 Broadway, Room 703
office hour: Tues 10:45 - 11:45
phone: 998-3497
email: grishman@cs.nyu.edu

Textbook:

Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Organization and Design
(Morgan Kaufmann, 1994)

Lectures:

can be accessed through the course schedule

Assignments:

Grading:

Course goals:

philosophical: understand how a computer can be built from basic components (switches)

practical: understand how the constant quest for higher performance is affecting architecture development