CS 573: Lecture Notes

• Brief Overview of History of High Performace Computing
• Instruction Set Architectures
• Advanced Pipelining
• Taxonomies of Serial and Parallel Computers
• Intel IA32 History

• Some memory hierarchy and cache background from CS 473:
  Memory Hierarchy
  Cache

• Consistency Models
• Data Integrity (ECC and CRC)
• Network Topologies
• SIMD Array Computers

Last modified: Wed Mar 14 09:13:22 MDT 2007