CS/EE6760 Parallel Computer Architecture I Spring 1999

• Lecture MWF2-3 in CoC 102. (slides)
• Instructor: Ken Mackenzie, kenmac at cc.gatech.edu, office hours WTh3-4 in CoC 219.
• TA: Rebecca Yount, rly at cc.gatech.edu, office hours M1-2, TTh2-3 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, Architecture Reading Group)

• 10-May-99:Homework 2 is due Monday, 17-May-99, despite the date on the handout.
• 22-Apr-99:The midterm is Wednesday, 28-Apr-98, in-class. The midterm is closed book; however, you may bring one 8.5"x11" sheet of notes. Last Fall's midterm is here: .ps, .pdf and solutions are here: .text
• 21-Apr-99:Homework 1 solutions are on-line below. Also, I archived some e-mail clarifications regarding Project 1.
• 6-Apr-99:Homework 1 and Project 1 are on-line.
• The second edition of the book is substantially different from the first edition; get the second edition.

       date topic          due date topic          due date topic         due

 (Mar)                          31 Intro                 2 [Patterson85]  HW0
 (Apr)   5 Review                7 Review                9 [Fisher91]
        12 Caches               14 Caches               16 [Jouppi90]
        19 Memory          HW1  21 Memory               23 [Cuppa99]      Prj1
        26 Midterm review       28 Pipelines            30 midterm
 (May)   3 no class              5 Scheduling            7 [Arvind86]
        10 OOO Execution        12 no class             14 Speculation
        17 [Smith88], Ex.  HW2  19 Prediction           21 [Emer97]
        24 Multiprocessors      26 Multiprocessors      28 Multiprocessors
        31 Memorial Day          2 presentations         4 presentations
        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - finals week - - - - - - - - - - - - -

• Lecture slides Note: these are restricted to *.gatech.edu where * does not end in .res
• General handouts:
  1. Syllabus: .ps, .pdf
  2. Papers: .ps, .pdf
• Homework:
  • Photo page (homework 0): .ps, .pdf
  1. Homework 1: .ps, .pdf (6-Apr-99), Solutions: .ps, .pdf (20-Apr-99)
  2. Homework 2: .ps, .pdf plus worksheet: .ps, .pdf, .idraw (7-May-99), Solutions: .ps, .pdf (25-May-99)
  3. Homework 3 (cancelled)
• Projects:
  1. Cache design
  2. Final project suggestions: .ps, .pdf (7-May-99)
• Exams:
  • Midterm .ps.gz, .pdf
  • Final (cancelled in favor of independent projects)

  Time      Mon     Tues    Wed    Thurs    Fri
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  8-9     
  9-10
  10-11
  11-N    
  N-1                             
  1-2	  Rebecca          Ken
  2-3      6760   Rebecca  6760   Rebecca  6760
  3-4                               Ken    ArchSem
  4-5                      /ReadGrp

Rebecca's office hours are in the CoC common area
Ken's office is CoC 219
Lecture is in CoC 102
Architecture Seminars are in CoC 354
Architecture Reading Group meets in CoC 155