CS/EE6760 Parallel Computer Architecture I Fall 1998

• Lecture TTh1:30-3 in Weber SS&T bldg, room 1. (slides)
• Instructor: Ken Mackenzie, kenmac at cc.gatech.edu, office hours TTh3-4, W4-5 in CoC 219.
• TA: Li Zou, zou at cc.gatech.edu, office hours TTh10-11 in CoC common area
• TA: Ed Shrum, eds at cc.gatech.edu, office hours MW10-11 in CoC common area
• 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
• News: git.cc.class.6760
• On-line resources (e.g. local Architecture Seminars)
• Follow-on courses:
  • EE6175 RISC Architecture Design (Winter)
  • CS/EE6761 Parallel Computer Architecture II (Spring)

• 4-Dec-98:
  • The final is Friday, 11-Dec-98, 11:30-2:30 in the lecture hall.
  • The final is closed book, you may bring two 8.5x11" sheets of notes.
  • Solutions to homework 3, project 3 and the midterm are on-line (.gatech.edu only) below.
• 24-Nov-98: See "follow-on courses" above.
• 24-Nov-98: I started archiving mail messages re: project 3 on its page.
• 22-Oct-98: I have no prior 6760 exams of my own to offer. You might look at the exams from:
  • Past 6760 classes (pointers at the bottom of the resources page), although the material is covered in a different order from quarter to quarter.
  • My version of the prereq: Spring 1998 CS3760, not for content but maybe for "style".
• 14-Oct-98: The .pdf files are derived from the .ps files and apparently the .pdf files are not always printable, particularly if the document contains equations. Please use the original .ps files for printing.

           date topic                  due  date  topic                 due

   (Sep)                                      24  Introduction 
            29  Memory               (hw0)     1  Memory
   (Oct)     6                  (no class)     8  Memory                (hw1)
            13  ILP                           15  ILP                   (prj1) 
            20  ILP                           22  ILP                   (hw2)
            27  ILP                           29  Review                
   (Nov)     3            (prj2) (midterm)     5  Interconnects 
            10  Multiprocessors               12  Multiprocessors     (no hw) 
            17  Multiprocessors               19  Multiprocessors       (hw3) 
            24  Multiprocessors               26                   (no class) 
   (Dec)     1                      (prj3)     3  Review 

             - - - - - - - - - - - - - finals week - - - - - - - - - - - - -

• Lecture slides Note: these are restricted to *.gatech.edu where * does not end in .res
• General handouts:
  1. Syllabus: .ps, .pdf (24-Sep-98)
  2. Papers: .ps, .pdf (24-Sep-98)
  3. Readings, part 1/3. (1-Oct-98)
  4. Readings, part 2/3. (13-Oct-98/15-Oct-98)
  5. Readings, part 3/3. (10-Nov-98)
• Homework:
  • Photo page (homework 0): .ps, .pdf (24-Sep-98)
  1. Memory systems: .ps, .pdf (1-Oct-98) and solutions (.gatech.edu only).ps, .pdf (12-Oct-98)
  2. ILP: .ps, .pdf, Tomasulo worksheet (15-Oct-98) and solutions (.gatech.edu only) .ps, .pdf (28-Oct-98)
  • Multiprocessors 1: cancelled
  3. Multiprocessors 2: .ps, .pdf and solutions .ps, .pdf (3-Dec-98)
• Projects:
  1. Cache system design
  2. Branch prediction
  3. Distributed cache coherence and solutions .text
• Exams:
  • Midterm: .ps, .pdf and solutions .text
  • Final .ps, .pdf

  Time      Mon     Tues    Wed    Thurs    Fri
  -----   ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
  8-9     
  9-10
  10-11   Ed      Li      Ed      Li
  11-N    
  N-1                             
  1-2              /6760         /6760
  2-3              6760          6760
  3-4              Ken           Ken      archsem
  4-5                     Ken

Li, Ed meet in CoC common area
Ken's office is CoC 219
Lecture in Weber SS&T bldg, room 1
Architecture Seminars in CoC 354

The second edition of the book is substantially different from the first edition; get the second edition.

The bookstore was listing Flynn as the required text under EE6760. If you purchased this book, they'll be happy to take it back. Let me know if you have problems returning it.