CS6290/CS4290 Fall 2001 Project 3: Final Project

• dates: out 30-Oct-01, due 2-Nov-01/7-Dec-01.
• handout: project3.ps, project3.pdf

        Monday 3-4 in CoC 017
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Johnson:                Genetic search of cache designs
Balakrishnan/Singh:     Redo Emer97 experiment
Martinez:               PIII vs. Athalon benchmarking
Collins/Jayaraman:      Data and value prediction
Gray/Wolenetz:          CPU2000 characterization


        Tuesday 1:30-2:30 in MiRC 102A
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Redd:                   Itanium benchmarking
Hooda/Trivedi:          OOO scheduling in simplescalar
Elmore:                 Predicting multiple branches
Anderson:               Dataflow simulator                      
Singaravelu/Sharma:     Branch difference predictor

        Wednesday 3-4 in CoC 017
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Kong/Li/Zhang:          IXP
Burger:                 Parallelization of video texture
Koh/Kang:               DSP (survey)
Jeong/Jun:              Caching w/page mapping in Shade
Cao:                    Branch prediction using Shade           
Pivoshenko/Ettibaryan:  RAID (survey)

        Friday 3-4 in CoC 017
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Huang/Tang:             Branch predictors
Liogkas/Somani:         Tag bits for generational GC
Viswanath/Agarwala:     IXP for SYN-flood problem
Gupta/Shariff:          Cache/VM w/remote pages in Shade
Dagon/McNeely:          ILP in Java bytecodes

• For the Shade system, there are two useful things in the /net/projects/class/6290/fall01/ directory. The first is the shade distribution which includes some documentation. The second is a project from a previous year's 6290 that used Shade to build branch predictors: see the directory old-project2
• For the SimpleScalar simulator, the source distribution is in /net/hp82/softarch/SIMULATORS/archive/simplesim-3.0b.tar.gz. There's also a pre-built compiler for the Sparc in /net/hp82/softarch/SIMULATORS/nsea/bin/ssbig-na-sstrix-gcc
• For SPEC benchmarks, see /net/hp82/softarch/BENCHMARKS/spec/cpu2000-tar.gz.
• For the IXP1200, start with /net/hp82/softarch/CAD/Intel/ixp_cd_v1.3.141/documentation/, particularly the "HW Ref Manual" and the "Prog Ref Manual", then see me for the CD with the tools.

  The Sun "cities" cluster in the CoC 1st floor, e.g.

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  |  akron           |                       | first-floor cluster    |
  |  boise           | Ultra 10, 256MB       | (always defer to       |
  |  cheyenne        |                       | anyone at the console) |
  |  dallas          |                       |                        |
  |  ...             |                       |                        |
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• Defer to the console: Don't use a public-cluster machine remotely unless there's no one at the console.
• Use nice +19: On any machine, preface any job you expect to run for more than about 10 seconds with nice +19 to voluntarily lower its priority.
• Limit scripts: Avoid launching unattended jobs (e.g., scripts of multiple simulation) that you expected to run for more than about a half an hour.
• No parallel processing: limit yourself to at most one 6290-related simulation per person active at a time in the CoC.