CS 573: Lecture Notes

• Brief History of High Performace Computing
• Instruction Set Architectures
• Virtual Memory
  • Intel 32-bit Virtual Memory
  • VAX Virtual Memory
• 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

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