CS6290/CS4290
High Performance Computer Architecture
Fall 2000

Detailed lecture and reading info.
Week Date Topic Slides Reading Out Due
1
21-Aug-00
Introduction .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt   Syllabus,
HW0
  
23-Aug-00
 VLSI .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 1.5-1.6    
25-Aug-00
 Review: processors .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 2   HW0
2
28-Aug-00
 Review: caches .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 1.7-1.10,
5.1-5.2		    
30-Aug-00
 Review: virtual memory .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.7-5.8    
1-Sep-00
 Discussion: RISC   H&P 2.9-2.11,
[Patterson85]		   HW1
3
4-Sep-00
Holiday
6-Sep-00
 Caches .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.2-5.3    
8-Sep-00
 Caches .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.2-5.4    
4
11-Sep-00
 Discussion: memory mapping .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt [Dennis65]    
13-Sep-00
 Cache system examples   [Gwennap95],
[Gwennap96],
[Song97b]		    
15-Sep-00
 Discussion: victim caches   [Jouppi90]   HW2
5
18-Sep-00
 Memory .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.6    
20-Sep-00
 Memory .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.9-5.12    
22-Sep-00
 Discussion: Software-managed L2   [Hallnor00]   PRJ1
6
25-Sep-00
 Pipelines .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 3    
27-Aug-00
 Scheduling .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.1    
29-Sep-00
 Discussion: instruction-level parallelism   [Fisher91]   HW3
7
2-Oct-00
 Scheduling .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.1, 4.5    
4-Oct-00
 Interrupts .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
6-Oct-00
 Discussion: dataflow machines   [Arvind86]   HW4
8
9-Oct-00
 Out-of-order (OOO) execution .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.2    
11-Oct-00
 Renaming .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
13-Oct-00
 Discussion: support for speculative execution   [Smith88]   HW5
9
16-Oct-00
 Superscalar processor examples .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt [Gwennap95],
[Gwennap96],
[Song97b]		    
18-Oct-00
 Review for midterm .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
20-Oct-00
midterm
10
23-Oct-00
Midterm Recess
25-Oct-00
 Prediction .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.3    
27-Oct-00
 Discussion: automatic predictor generation   [Emer97]    
11
30-Oct-00
 Software Speculation .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.6    
1-Nov-00
 Busses .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 6.3    
3-Nov-00
 Discussion: Intel IA-64 "Itanium"   [Gwennap99]   HW6
12
6-Nov-00
 Networks .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 7    
8-Nov-00
 Network Interfaces .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 7    
10-Nov-00
 Discussion: networks for multiprocessors   [Kubiatowicz93]   HW7
13
13-Nov-00
 Network Processors        
15-Nov-00
 Embedded Processing: Soft Caching   H&P 8.1, 8.2    
17-Nov-00
 Parallel applications .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
14
20-Nov-00
 Parallel mechanisms .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 8.2    
22-Nov-00
 Disk technology, RAID .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 6.1, 6.2   PRJ2
24-Nov-00
Thanksgiving Holiday
15
27-Nov-00
 Shared Memory .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 8.3, 8.4    
29-Nov-00
 Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt [Codrescu99]    
1-Dec-00
 Discussion: thread-level speculation .ps, .pdf [Codrescu99]   HW8
16
4-Dec-00
 Digital Signal Processors (DSPs)        
6-Dec-00
 Review .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
8-Dec-00
 exotica        
Ken Mackenzie, $Date: 2000/11/30 16:59:16 $