COMPSCI 61C- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 73 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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* massive data parallelism (spark on amazon ec2) * 2 midterms: 15% ea (6th & 12th weeks; can be clobbered) * performance competition for honor (& epa) iclickers for epa. * deducted for each day of late work. * raspberry pi 3 (esp for projects 4 & 5) w/128gb sd card. Class is about hardware-software interface (how to achieve highest possible performance) Parallel instructions: >1 instruction @ 1 time (5 pipelined instructions) Parallel data: >1 data item @ 1 time (add of 4 pairs of words) 6 great ideas in computer architecture: abstraction (levels of representation / interpretation) Logic circuit description (circuit schematic diagrams: moore"s law. Every 2 years, the number of transistors / chip doubles (processing power doubles) Not true anymore because you can"t shrink in nitely. Jim gray"s storage latency analogy: how far away is the data: principle of locality / memory hierarchy. Ssd, flash drive (ssds are recommended in general by professors!)
