CS6290/CS4290
High Performance Computer Architecture
Fall 2002

Detailed lecture and reading info.
Week Date Topic Slides Reading Out Due
1
20-Aug-00
Introduction .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt   Syllabus,
HW0
  
22-Aug-00
 Review: processors .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch 1, 2.   HW0
24-Aug-00
 Review: pipelines .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
2
27-Aug-00
 VLSI, memory .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.1    
29-Aug-00
 Caches .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.2-5.3    
32-Aug-00
 Discussion: RISC   H&P 2.9-2.11,
[Patterson85]		   HW1
3
3-Sep-00
Holiday
5-Sep-00
 Caches .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.2-5.4    
7-Sep-00
 Discussion: victim caches   [Jouppi90]   HW2
4
10-Sep-00
 Virtual memory, cache system examples .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt [Gwennap95],
[Gwennap96],
[Song97b]		    
12-Sep-00
 Memory .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.7-5.8    
14-Sep-00
 Discussion: memory mapping   [Dennis65]    
5
17-Sep-00
 Memory .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.6    
19-Sep-00
 Shared Memory .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 5.9-5.12    
21-Sep-00
 review .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt     PRJ1
6
24-Sep-00
midterm
26-Aug-00
 Pipelines .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 3    
28-Sep-00
 Scheduling .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.1    
7
1-Oct-00
 Scheduling .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.1    
3-Oct-00
 Interrupts .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.1, 4.5    
5-Oct-00
 Discussion: instruction-level parallelism   [Fisher91]   HW3
8
8-Oct-00
 Out-of-order (OOO) execution .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.2    
10-Oct-00
 Software pipelining: compiler perspective        
12-Oct-00
 Discussion: support for speculative execution   [Smith88]    
9
15-Oct-00
Midterm Recess
17-Oct-00
 Speculation support, explicit register renaming .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
19-Oct-00
 Discussion: SimpleScalar simulator   [Burger97]   HW4
10
22-Oct-00
 Prediction .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.3    
24-Oct-00
 Software Speculation .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 4.6    
26-Oct-00
 Discussion: automatic predictor generation   [Emer97]   HW5
11
29-Oct-00
 Examples, Power/Energy .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
31-Oct-00
 Busses .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 6.3    
2-Nov-00
 Discussion: Intel IA-64 "Itanium"   [Zahir00]   PRJ2
12
5-Nov-00
 Networks .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 7    
7-Nov-00
 Network Interfaces .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 7    
9-Nov-00
 Network Processors .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
13
12-Nov-00
 Parallel applications .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 8.1    
14-Nov-00
 Parallel mechanisms .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P Ch. 8.2    
16-Nov-00
no class
14
19-Nov-00
 Discussion: networks for multiprocessors   [Kubiatowicz93], H&P Ch. 8.3   HW6
21-Nov-00
 Disk technology, RAID .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt H&P 6.1, 6.2    
23-Nov-00
Thanksgiving Holiday
15
26-Nov-00
 Multiprocessor Examples .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
28-Nov-00
 Dynamic Compilation, Soft Caching .ps.gz, .pdf, .ppt      
30-Nov-00
 Discussion: thread-level speculation   [Codrescu99]    
16
3-Dec-00
 presentations        
5-Dec-00
 presentations        
7-Dec-00
 presentations        
Ken Mackenzie, $Date: 2001/11/28 19:03:39 $