Exam is Closed Book
Qualifying Exam Syllabus for COMPSCI 550:
- Pipelined processors
- Software exploitation of Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP)
- Hardware exploitation of Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP)
- Cache/memory design
- Data-Level Parallelism (Vector, SIMD, GPU)
- Multithreading, multicore, multiprocessors
- Warehouse Scale Computing
Reference:
- Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th edition, by Hennessy and Patterson
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