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Unique Number: 47650 Meeting: Tue., Thurs., 3:30-5:00PM. Taylor 2.106 Instructor: Herb Schwetman, Mesquite Software, Inc., 305-0080, hds@mesquite.com Office Hours: before or after class and by appointment Teaching Assistants: Rui Liu Office hours: T 6:30-8:00PM, TH 6:30-8:00PM, TA Station 5 Contact: rui@cs.utexas.edu Yang Yang Office hours: W 1:00-1:50PM, F 3:05-5:00PM, TA Station 5; or by appointment Contact: yangyang@cs.utexas.edu Schedule: First day of class: Thursday, August 29, 1996 Thansgiving recess: November, 28-30, 1996 Last day of class : Thursday, December 5, 1996 Final Exam : Saturday, December 14, 7:00-10:00PM Grading: Two exams, in class 40% Final exam 30% Problems, programs, etc 30% Notices:Late Assignments: Assignments are due on the due date, either in class or to the TA by the end of class period (6:15PM) late programs will be penalized 5% of the maximum grade per school day late ( after the due date), up to one week. After one week, no credit will be given for late program.
Each assignment must be done completely by the individual claiming credit for the work. All programs will be done in C or C++. You either have or can obtain accounts of the CS Department's RS/6000 and Sparc workstations. You can obtain accounts for the IX3 system (UNIX) supplied by the Computer Center. A Computer Center account is needed if you dial-in to the Campus Networks.
If you choose to use some other system which supports C and/or C++, please ve aware that the instructor and the TA are not responsible for any problems which arise from using these other systems. In particular, the instructor is not responsible for making input data and programs available on other systems. To repeat, all work handed in MUST be the work of the student receiving the grade. Any exceptions to this must be discussde beforehand.
Text: Computer Architecture: a Quantitative Approach, 2nd edition, Hennessy & Patterson, Morgan Kaufman Publishers.