ECE 538: Advanced Computer Architecture

Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, ECE Room 210

Instructor: Dr. David A. Bader

Office: ECE 230B

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 10:00 - 10:45 AM, or by appointment.

Textbook: Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Third edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers / Elsevier, 2002.

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• Syllabus
• Homework Set #1, due 31 Aug.
• Homework Set #2, due 16 Sept.
• Homework Set #3, due 7 Oct.
• Homework Set #4, due 30 Nov.

Reading Assignments:

• G. Amdahl, G. Blaauw, and F Brooks, Jr. " Architecture of the IBM System / 360," IBM Journal, April 1964.
• William J. Dally, Patrick Hanrahan, Mattan Erez, Timothy J. Knight, Francois Labonte, Jung-Ho Ahn, Nuwan Jayasena, Ujval J. Kapasi, Abhishek Das, Jayanth Gummanraju, and Ian Buck. "Merrimac: Supercomputing with Streams," Supercomputing 2003, Phoenix, AZ, November 2003.
• Mark R. Thistle and Burton J. Smith, "A Processor Architecture for Horizon."
• Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Ramadass Nagarajan, Haiming Liu, Changkyu Kim, Jaehyuk Huh, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, and Charles R. Moore, "Exploiting ILP, TLP, and DLP with the polymorphous TRIPS architecture," Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, San Diego, California, 2003.
• An overview of the BlueGene/L supercomputer, Supercomputing 2002 Technical Papers, November 2002

Useful Links:

• Purchase an inexpensive used copy of the textbook!
• Robert L. Britton, MIPS Assembly Language Programming, Prentice-Hall, 2004.
• Berkeley CS252 Lecture Notes
  • Fall 2003 (John Kubiatowicz)
  • Spring 2002 (David Culler)
• Processor Architectures:
  • ARM
  • MIPS
  • IBM Power
  • Intel
  • UltraSparc