Pre-class Assignment

[ ] Please fill out your answer on the thread on Ed!
[ ] Please fill out the onboarding survey if you haven’t already.
[ ] Please complete the reading and participation questions under the processor performance section. You do not need to do the optional ones.

Announcements

Homework 1 is out today and will be due next Monday Jan 30th before lab. Work can be submitted on Moodle. I will be available for help during lab period Monday Jan 23rd 1:15pm-4pm in Singer 221. (If I’m not there, check my office in Singer 233).
- Homework will be graded out of 3:
  - 3: all or almost all correct (only minor errors)
  - 2: all problems answered but major errors
  - 1: not all problems answered but submitted
  - 0: not submitted
If you haven’t been able to get the zyBook yet, please complete the participation activities when you get your book; I’ll wait to grade for a few days so everyone can get caught up.
Clarification on zyBooks responsibilities (more details here)
Office hours: by appointment (email me if none of those times work)
- The goal of this is to be more flexible / have more times, but I'm also open to a regularly scheduled time! Feel free to come as a group.

In this lecture you will:

participate in a short lecture reviewing the three types of computing systems and seven great ideas in computer architecture
- list as many of the 7 great ideas of computer architecture as you can
participate in a lecture introducing the idea of processor performance
complete exercises evaluating processor performance

By the end of this lecture you should be able to:

articulate several of the great ideas of computer architecture, and discuss how they are relevant to processor performance
compare the performance or power utilization of two processors for a given task