Coordinates

Lectures: Mondays from 6:30pm - 9:20pm

@UW: Paul Allen Center, Room 305

@Microsoft: Building 99, Room 1915

Communication

To contact the course staff, you can email csep548-staff@cs.

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Schedule

The schedule page contains links to all the course materials, reading assignments and homework assignments.

Multimedia Lectures

The audio/video page contains links to watch lectures live over the internet, and browse archived versions of past lectures.

Grading

All reading and homework assignments are to be submitted electronically via Catalyst.

All your grades will be posted via the Catalyst gradebook.

Grade breakdown:

• 25% reading assignments
• 45% homework assignments
• 30% final exam

Late Policy

10% reduction per 24 hours late (rounding up). So if you submit 1 hour late, that's 10% off; 25 hours late is 20% off, etc. You get a zero if you submit after the solution is posted.

Textbook

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (4th Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2007), by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau