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CS-4504: Computer Organization

Description: Overview of the structure, elements and analysis of modern enterprise computers. Performance evaluation of commercial computing. Past and emerging technology trends. Impact of parallelism at multiple levels of computer architecture. Memory and storage. Fundamental computer system descriptions, Amdahls Law, Flynns Taxonomy. A grade of C or better required in prerequisites.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: CS-3214 or ECE-3504 or ECE-2500

Required By: CS-5504

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: ECE-4504

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 4

Average GPA: 2.82 (rounds to B-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 23.52%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 7.50%

Haibo Zeng202130.0%30.0%0.0%10.0%10.0%20.0%2.791
Wu Chun Feng202421.6%30.5%31.6%5.5%5.5%5.0%2.642
Xun Jian202353.9%23.1%23.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.221

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Term050% W