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Dates |
Topics |
Readings |
Assignments |
| 1 |
8/21, 8/23 |
Course introduction, Metrics, Review pipeline
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H&P AppA/Ch1 or Baer Ch1/Ch2 |
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Simulation, PA #1 |
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| 2 |
8/28, 8/30 |
Memory hierarchy |
[Lec-Ma]Chap2, H&P AppB |
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| 3 |
9/4, 9/6 |
Memory Systems (DRAM) |
H&P Ch2.1, Ch2.2,Ch2.3 [CAC1] |
PA#1 (9/5) |
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| 4 |
9/11, 9/13 |
Virtual memory, prefetching |
Baer Ch6.4 [CAC2][PREF] |
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| 5 |
9/18, 9/20 |
prefetching, Instruction-level parallelism (I) |
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| 6 |
9/25,9/27 |
Instruction-level parallelism (II) |
H&P3.4-3.6 [MA1][MA2] |
PA#2 (9/24) Midterm-I (9/27) |
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| 7 |
10/2, 10/4 |
Emerging memory technologies, Instruction-level parallelism (III)
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| 8 |
10/9, 10/11 |
Branch Predictor |
H&P3.1-3.3, BaerCh4, [BP1][BP2] |
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| 9 |
10/16,10/18 |
Thread-level parallelism |
H&PCh5 [SMT1] |
fall-break (10/16)
Milestone-1 due for research track (10/18), PA#3 (10/21) |
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| 10 |
10/23,10/25 |
Thread-level parallelism (II) |
H&PCh5, BaseCh7 |
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| 11 |
10/30,11/1 |
Cache coherences |
H&PCh5,BaerCh7, [Lec-Cache] |
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| 12 |
11/6, 11/8 |
Consistency/ parallel support |
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Midterm-II (11/8) |
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| 13 |
11/13,11/15 |
Power
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[pow3] |
PA#4 (11/18) |
| 14 |
11/20,11/22 |
GPU |
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[Lec-GPU]chap1
Thanksgivig Holidays(11/22) |
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| 15 |
11/27,11/29 |
Reliability, Storage; Static exploitation of ILP & Predication and VLIW |
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PA #5: 11/30, Term project due (11/30) (+5 additional days) |
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| 16 |
12/4,12/6 |
Case study |
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MICRO-2012 |
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Review |
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| Final |
12/11 |
Final Exam (12/11 Tu 2:50pm - 5:40pm) Research project poster day (12/11) |
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