CS6290/CS4290 High Performance Computer Architecture Fall 2001

• All handouts are collected here (at the bottom of this page).
• Lecture MWF3-4 in CoC 017 (Lecture slides and detailed reading assignments are here).
• Instructor: Ken Mackenzie, kenmac at cc.gatech.edu, office hours WTh12-1 in CoC 219.
• TA: Ivan Tacic, ivant at cc.gatech.edu, office hours W1-3 in CoC 328.
• 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 (Note: due dates are invalid! See current dates below)
• News: git.cc.class.cs6290
• On-line resources (e.g. local Architecture Seminars, old exams, etc.)

• 26-Nov-01: One more paper ... here's [Codrescu99]
• 19-Nov-01: A list of all the final projects.
• 12-Nov-01: By request, here's a copy of [Kubi93]
• 10-Sep-01: The copier is still in bad shape. Here's [Dennis65]
• 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)  20  Intro           22  Review          24  Review          HW0
        27  VLSI            29  Caches          31  [Patterson85]   HW1
 (Sep)   3  holiday          5  Caches           7  [Jouppi90]
        10  Virtual Memory  12  Memory          14  [Dennis65]      HW2
        17  Memory          19  Shared Memory   21  review          PRJ1
        23  midterm         26  Pipelines       28  Scheduling
 (Oct)   1  Scheduling       3  Interrupts       5  [Fisher91]      HW3
         8  OOO             10  SW pipes        12  [Smith88]       
        15  holiday         17  Renaming        19  [Burger97]      HW4
        22  Prediction      24  Predication     26  [Emer97]        HW5
        29  Power           31  Busses           2  [Zahir00]       PRJ2
 (Nov)   5  Networks         7  NIs              9  Network Ps
        12  Parallel        14  Parallel        16  no class
        19  [Kubi93]   HW6  21  Disks           23  holiday
        26  Parallel        28  Dynamic Comp.   30  [Codrescu99]
 (Dec)   3  presentations    5  presentations    7  presentations   PRJ3
        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 (Note: due dates are invalid! See current dates above)
• Homework:
  • Photo page (homework 0): .ps, .pdf
  1. Homework 1: .ps, .pdf, mips.c, homework1-note1.text (27-Aug-01), Solutions: .ps, .pdf (4-Sep-01, 10-Sep-01).
  2. Homework 2: .ps, .pdf, Solutions: .ps, .pdf (21-Sep-01)
  3. Homework 3: .ps, .pdf, text file with code: homework3-note1.text, Solutions: .ps, .pdf (9-Oct-01)
  4. Homework 4: .ps, .pdf, Tomasulo worksheet: tom-fall01.ps Solutions: .ps, .pdf (29-Oct-01)
  5. Homework 5: .ps, .pdf, spare copies of fig3.4.ps, Solutions: .ps, .pdf (29-Oct-01)
  6. Homework 6: .ps, .pdf
  7. Homework 7: cancelled
• Projects:
  1. Cache Design
  2. Superscalar Design
  3. Final Project
• Exams: (note: old exams from previous versions of this course here, bottom of page)
  • Midterm
  • there is no final

  Time      Mon     Tues    Wed    Thurs    Fri
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  8-9     
  9-10
  10-11
  11-N    
  N-1                      Ken      Ken
  1-2                      Ivan
  2-3                      Ivan
  3-4      6290            6290            6290
  4-5