CS6290/CS4290 High Performance Computer Architecture Fall 2000

• All handouts are collected here (at the bottom of this page).
• Lecture MWF3-4 in CoC 101 (Lecture slides and detailed reading assignments are here).
• Instructor: Ken Mackenzie, kenmac at cc.gatech.edu, office hours WTh4-5 in CoC 219.
• TA: Pat Prasangsit, pp at cc.gatech.edu, office hours M1-3 in CoC common area (or the Sun lab)
• Text: Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Morgan Kaufman, 1995 (2nd Edition) plus some papers to be handed out.
• Syllabus: syllabus.ps, syllabus.pdf
• News: git.cc.class.cs6290
• On-line resources (e.g. local Architecture Seminars, old exams, etc.)

• 13-Dec-00: Practice final: .ps
• 29-Nov-00: Note on HW8: homework8-note1.text
• 29-Nov-00: The final is comprehensive and closed-book with two (2) sheets of double-sided, 8.5x11 inch note permitted. The standard final is Friday, 15-Dec-00, 2:50-5:40pm in CoC 101. The early-bird final is Monday, 4-Dec-00, 12:00-3:00pm in CoC 053.
• 7-Nov-00: PRJ2 due date pushed back to 22-Nov-00.
• 30-Oct-00: Note on HW6: corrected version of Problem 2: .ps, .pdf
• 5-Oct-00: Note on HW4: homework4-note1.text
• 28-Sep-00: Note on HW3: homework3-note1.text
• 2-Sep-00: HW2 is due 15-Sep-00, one week later than intended, since I'm going to be out of town Wednesday/Thursday of this week. There will be a guest lecturer Wednesday.
• Book: The second edition of the book is substantially different from the first edition; be sure to get the second edition.
• Grading: CS6290 and CS4290 are treated as the same class although graded separately. Note that this class is substantially the same as ECE6100.
• PDFs: Lecture slides are linked in PDF format in the calendar below. For other formats, see the lecture slides page. In particular: the PDFs are derived from postscript, so the plain postscript may print more easily.

       date topic          date topic          date topic         due

 (Aug)  21  Intro           23  VLSI            25  Review          HW0
        28  Review          30  Virtual Memory   1  [Patterson85]   HW1
 (Sep)   4  holiday          6  Caches           8  Caches
        11  Caches          13  Examples        15  [Jouppi90]      HW2
        18  Memory          20  Memory          22  [Hallnor00]     PRJ1
        25  Pipelines       27  Scheduling      29  [Fisher91]      HW3
 (Oct)   2  Scheduling       4  Interrupts       6  [Arvind86]      HW4
         9  OOO             11  Renaming        13  [Smith88]       HW5
        16  Prediction      18  Review          20  midterm
        23  holiday         25  Prediction      27  [Emer97]
        30  Predication      1  Busses           3  [Gwennap99]     HW6
 (Nov)   6  Networks         8  NIs             10  [Kubi93]        HW7
        13  Network Ps      15  Embedded        17  Parallel
        20  Parallel        22  Disks     PRJ2  24  holiday
        27  Shared Memory   29  CMPs             1  [Codrescu99]    HW8
 (Dec)   4  DSPs             6  Review           8  exotica
        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - finals week - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Handouts (same pointers as above, differently arranged). Note that the .pdf files are derived from the .ps files, so the .ps files are more reliable. Lecture slides and homework solutions are on a CoC-internal server which (unfortunately!) is not accessible from RESnet.

• Lecture slides
• General handouts:
  1. Syllabus: .ps, .pdf
  2. Papers: not yet available
• Homework:
  • Photo page (homework 0): .ps, .pdf
  1. Homework 1: .ps, .pdf, Solutions (2-Sep-00): .ps, .pdf
  2. Homework 2: .ps, .pdf, Solutions (24-Sep-00): .ps, .pdf
  3. Homework 3: .ps, .pdf, homework3-note1.text
  4. Homework 4: .ps, .pdf, homework4-note1.text, Solutions (6-Oct-00): .ps, .pdf
  5. Homework 5: .ps, .pdf, Tomasulo diagram: tom-fall00.ps, homework5-note1.text, Solutions (13-Oct-00): .ps, .pdf
  6. Homework 6: .ps, .pdf (revised 30-Oct-00), spare copies of fig3.4.ps, Solutions (18-Nov-00): .ps, .pdf
  7. Homework 7: .ps, .pdf, Solutions (18-Nov-00): .ps, .pdf
  8. Homework 8: .ps, .pdf, homework8-note1.text, Solutions (1-Dec-00): .ps, .pdf
• Projects:
  1. Cache Design
  2. Branch Prediction
• Exams: (note: old exams from previous versions of this course here, bottom of page)
  • Midterm .ps
  • Final (practice exam: .ps)

  Time      Mon     Tues    Wed    Thurs    Fri
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  9-10
  10-11
  11-N    
  N-1                             
  1-2      Pat             Ken
  2-3      Pat
  3-4      6290            6290            6290
  4-5                              Ken