UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2004, Section 0101

System Performance

Thursday 12/09, 2004

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:  10.1-10.7

Assigned Reading in Neveln:   

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Slides (in PDF): Slides27.pdf

Topics Covered:

• System performance and Amdahl's "Law".
• Typical features and benefits of RISC architecture.
• Pipelining.
• Register windows.
• Superscalar vs Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures.
• Instruction-level vs program-level parallelism.
• Disk performance: seek time, rotational time, access time.