CS 203: ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
University of California, Riverside
4 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): CS 161; graduate standing. Covers contemporary computer systems architecture including pipelined CPU design, instruction level parallelism, memory hierarchy, thread level parallelism, introduction to multiprocessing, and evaluation of computer performance. May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.
Average GPA: 3.60
Grade distribution records: 622 students across 12 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 80 | 12.9% |
| A | 178 | 28.6% |
| A- | 149 | 24.0% |
| B+ | 94 | 15.1% |
| B | 70 | 11.3% |
| B- | 43 | 6.9% |
| C+ | 4 | 0.6% |
| F | 1 | 0.2% |
| NP | 3 | 0.5% |
Based on 622 student grade records across 12 terms and 4 professors.
Instructors
- Hung-Wei Tseng 409 students, Average GPA 3.56
- Daniel Wong 95 students, Average GPA 3.90
- Nael Abu-Ghazaleh 61 students, Average GPA 3.63
- Walid Najjar 57 students, Average GPA 3.33