ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES

Catalog description

Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. This course provides an overview of high-performance computing: processor architectures, memory, input/output devices, interfaces, and storage area networks; parallel computing, grid and cluster computing, and Beowulf systems. In addition, students are required to take computer -based testing in the form of knowledge area tests and a comprehensive final exam. Students will have ample opportunity to explore the literature in this field to enhance their technical competencies and keep abreast of the most recent developments in computers.