CS8803J/CS4803J High Performance Communication Spring 2002

• All handouts are collected here (at the bottom of this page).
• Lecture MW9-10 in CoC 102.
• Instructor: Ken Mackenzie, kenmac at cc.gatech.edu, office hours Th2-4 in CoC 219.
• Syllabus: syllabus.ps, syllabus.pdf

• 30-Jan-02: Please attend Greg Eisenhauer's talk in CS 8803E on ECho/JECho, Thursday, 31-Jan-02, in Architecture 223.
• 21-Jan-02: prj1-note2.text: .uc file fixes and the project is now due 30-Jan-02.
• 15-Jan-02: prj1-note1.text
• 7-Jan-02: If you don't yet have a registration permit for the 8803J course number, send me mail and CC Karsten Schwan (schwan@cc) in case I'm unavailable.
• 4-Jan-02: OSCAR lists the class as a MWF class. I plan to meet formally only on Mondays and Wednesdays although I'll be in the lab during the class hour on Friday.

• Local files
• Local web page
• Intel's Network Processor web page
• prnt -dest central-ps -type ps -duplex yes -holes yes -staple no foo.ps

       date topic              due     date topic              due

 (Jan)   7  Intro                        9      no class
        14  IG  Pipelining              16  CC  Gigabit example
        21      holiday                 23  JK  Network issues
        28  CP  MRC/Alewife             30  CA  TCP            PRJ1
 (Feb)   4  DR  (Th 31-Jan) ECho/JECho   6  WS  ACE framework
        11  PS  [Morris99]              13  WS  [Spalink01]
        18  AT  Network interfaces      20  DR  [vonEicken92]
        25  IG  Grim                    27  JK  [Brewer95]     PRJ2
 (Mar)   4      spring break             6      spring break
        11  CP  [Thekkath94]            13  CA  Hamlyn
        18  DR  [Osborne94]             20  PS  [vonEicken95]  PRJ3
        25  BS  [Mackenzie98]           27  WS  [Mogul87]
 (Apr)   1  AT  measurements             3  IG  [Gallatin99]
         8  CC  [Yocum98]               10  JK  RDMA
        15  CP  NI wrapup               17  CA  near-NIs
        22      presentations           24      presentations
        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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.

• General handouts:
  1. Syllabus: .ps, .pdf
• Projects:
  1. Transmitter/Receiver: .ps, .pdf
  2. ACE Framework .ps, .pdf
  3. PCI Performance cancelled
  4. Final Project .ps, .pdf

  Time      Mon     Tues    Wed    Thurs    Fri
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  8-9     
  9-10     8803J           8803J            
  10-11
  11-N    
  N-1
  1-2
  2-3                               Ken
  3-4                               Ken
  4-5