Dec 26, 2024  
Rensselaer Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2024-2025
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ECSE 6320 - Advanced Computer Systems


Key design principles and techniques of modern computer hardware, including instruction-level, data-level, and thread-level parallelism in CPU and GPU, cache and memory hierarchy, DRAM and non-volatile memory technologies and solid-state drive, and heterogeneous and disaggregated computing architecture. Advanced infrastructure software design techniques and algorithms, including indexing data structure, transaction, storage model, and consistency and consensus. Course projects to gain advanced programming skills and deepen the understanding of modern computer hardware and software.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 2660  or CSCI 2500  or equivalent.

When Offered: Fall term annually.

Co-Listed: ECSE 4320  and ECSE 6320. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and the co-listed course.

Credit Hours: 3



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