Course Goals

Goal 1:

To familiarize with both fundamental design tradeoffs and recent research issues/trends in processor, memory, and platform architectures in today’s and future systems. A strong emphasis will be given on fundamental principles and design tradeoffs.

Goal 2:

Using the fundamental design concepts in the context of new technology trends. Learning the whole system stack design philosophy for recent emerging applications and technologies. A strong emphasis will be given to accelerators, processing in memory and storage, and emerging memory technologies.

Goal 3:

To provide the necessary background and experience to advance the state-of-the-art in computer architecture and systems through a research project. A strong emphasis will be given on exploring state of the art designs (through the course research project).


Syllabus

Syllabus
Subject to change.

Meeting Times

Tuesday and Thursday 11.00 am - 12.15 pm, Rice 130

Contact

Instructor
Email: samira khan@virginia.edu
Office: Rice 308
Office Hour: Tuesday 3.30-4.30 pm or By Appointment. I love talking to students about their life goals, future plans, and all the ways they will change the world. My TAs are excellent in helping with homeworks and assignments.

ShiftLab Teaching Assistants
Please send emails to cs3330s20tas@gmail.com to reach all TAs.

Amel Fatima, Email: af3szr@virginia.edu, Office Hour: Thursday 3.00-5.00 pm, Rice 432
Sihang Liu, Email: sihangliu@virginia.edu, Office Hour: Sunday 12.00-2.00 pm, Rice 432
Korakit Seemakhupt, Email: ks4hb@virginia.edu, Office Hour: Thursday 12.30-2.30 pm, Rice 432
Yasas Senevirathne, Email: dns8cz@virginia.edu, Office Hour: Friday 12.30-2.3330 pm, Rice 432
Yizhou Wei, Email: yw2bc@virginia.edu, Office Hour: Monday 3.00-5.00 pm, Rice 432

Undergrad Teaching Assistants
Min Jae Lee, Email: ml3hu@virginia.edu, Office Hour: Saturday 2.00-4.00 pm, Rice 442
Nikita Semichev, Email: ms6dr@virginia.edu, Office Hour: Friday 3.00-5.00 pm, Rice 442
Yuying Zhang, Email: yz3uj@virginia.edu, Office Hour: Sunday 2.00-4.00 pm, Rice 442