COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN
OTHER RESOURCES
Web access:
- Click here
for information on obtaining a Remote Network Access account for
PPP access to UT-Dallas.
(PPP stands for "Point-to-Point Protocol".
PPP software permits you to link to the Internet over a
point-to-point serial connection such as a telephone line.)
- Download Netscape
Navigator for your platform
- Adobe Acrobat
Reader software is necessary to view downloaded lecture slide files
- The
Internet
Starter Kit
is a complete on-line reference to getting on the Web and troubleshooting
your connection
- Alan Clark has created a presentation on
modem technology
that answers many questions about 56K modems, ISDN, and cable modems
- Curt's High Speed
Modems Page contains a wealth of general information about modems
and specific directions for setting up modems in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
Computer
history links
- CPU
Info Center at UC-Berkeley
- The
TI
TMS320C6x digital signal processor has a performance of 1600 MIPS!
- Intel's summary of
how
microprocessors work
-
Chip shots from
the Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope site
at Florida State University
- The
Computational
Science Education Project provides an entire on-line course
on computer architecture and computation from the point of view of the
working engineer or scientist
- An
80x86
assembly language tutorial is available on-line.
Click here
for a short introduction to 8086 assembly language.
- A
Motorola
68k simulator that runs under DOS is available at the University
of Alberta
-
Selected materials for courses at other universities based on Patterson
and Hennessy's Computer Organization and Design:
-
Links on Boolean algebra:
- Other courses:
- Links that pertain to numerical
computation and performance evaluation:
- Net Reviews - COMPUTING, Programming, Test Suites & Benchmarks
- Benchmark Programs and Reports
- Installation Guide for LAPACK
- Kuck & Associates, Inc. (Optimizing Software)
- Numerical Analysis Page at FSU
- Numerical Analysis at North Carolina State University
- NCSA technical reports
- FORTRAN90 tutorial
- Complex Systems
- Fractal database
- Computational and Applied Mathematics at UT-Austin
- Research on turbulence and nonlinear dynamics
at Eindhoven University
- Center for Wave Phenomena at the Colorado School of Mines
- Computational fluid dynamics resources at Chalmers University, Sweden
- Computational Mechanics Home Page
- National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE)
- A browsable C language FAQ
- SPEC benchmark information at EPFL's HP-UX server includes
the SPEC FAQ and an unofficial list of
SPECmarks
- An extensive collection of benchmark information exists at ftp.nosc.mil
- Performance database, a searchable archive of benchmark
and performance information
- Benchmark programs and reports at Netlib.
Here you can find the latest Dongarra performance report, plus many other benchmark reports.
- Netlib Repository at UTK/ORNL, a treasure trove of computational resources
- Computational toolkit for numerical relativity
- Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University
- Neural networks in high-energy physics
- Digital Signal Processing at Rice University
- Spyglass Visual Data Analysis Tools for Macintosh,
Unix and Windows
- Wavelet Resources through MathSoft
- Consortium of Academic Supercomputing Centers
- UT-Austin's High Performance Computing Facility, all that's left
of what was the UT-System Center for High Performance Computing
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- San Diego Supercomputer Center
- FORTWIHR - Bavarian Consortium for High Performance Scientific Computing
- Centre Charles Hermite
- National Coordination Office for the HPCC, including a history of the
evolution of the Internet.
- National Challenge Applications, which
include education and digital libraries.
- The sci.math.num-analysis newsgroup