COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR DATA SCIENCE

Catalog description

background in Computer System Organization and good working knowledge of C/C++ Corequisites: CSOR W4246 , STAT GU4203 An introduction to computer architecture and distributed systems with an emphasis on warehouse scale computing systems. Topics will include fundamental tradeoffs in computer systems, hardware and software techniques for exploiting instruction-level parallelism, data-level parallelism and task level parallelism, scheduling, caching, prefetching, network and memory architecture, latency and throughput optimizations, specialization, and an introduction to programming data center computers