CS6290HPCA

School of computer science

Georgia Institute of Technology

CS6290HPCA Fall 2009

Project Descriptions
Prof. Hyesoon Kim

Schedule

Project abstract: 9/12
Proposal deadline: 9/17
Project first milestone meeting: 10/23
Project second milestone meeting: 11/20
Project final report and presentation: 12/1

Teams
Students may choose to work alone or in teams of up to three. The project must be more ambitious as you have more people, and all students will get the same grade within a team.

Possible Projects
You can choose any topic that is relevant to computer architecture. Research oriented topics are highly recommended. However, implementing several proposed algorithms and compare them is also suggested. Before the Project proposal deadline, please send a less than 1/2 page of the abstract to me through e-mail. You can still submit proposal without sending the abstract but sending an abstract of proposal will provide an early feedback.
These are possible project topic and if you are interested in any of these topics, please send email with the interest topic list after you read the relevant paper. We will discuss the possible topics.

Suggested project list

GPU architecture
- GPU analytical model: paper
- Dynamic warp formation and scheduling paper
Fault tolerant architecture
- Application-Level Correctness and its Impact on Fault Tolerance paper
- Fault screening paper
- Memory problems
  - Feedback driven hardware prefetcher paper1 , paper2
  - Different hardware prefetching algorithms
  - Different software prefetching algorithms
  - DRAM analytical model paper
  - PCM (three papers from 2009 ISCA)
- Instruction fetch problems
  - Indirect branch prediction paper1 , paper2 paper3
  - Branch prediction using machine learning paper
- Security
  - AEGIS paper
  - Dynamic information flow tracking paper
- Power
  - DRAM power paper1 , paper2
  - DVFS and resource managements : ISCA 2009 Session 7A papers
- Interconnections
- on-chip interconnections paper
CMP resource managements
- Dynamic cache partitioning paper
- Thread scheduling in heterogeneous architectures

Project grading guidelines

Abstract: 1/2 page
Proposal: (10%)
- 2-3 pages
- contents: Motivation, problem statement, project schedule (schedule for each milestone meeting) , experimental methodology, expected results, related work.
1st milestone meeting (1st progress report): 10%
- Literature survey must be completed until the 1st milestone.
2nd milestone meeting (2nd progress report): 10%
- More than 80% of the project should be finished by this time.
Final report (60%)
- Please follow computer architecture conference paper styles
- 8 page double column 10 fonts, ACM or IEEE style.
- Detailed guidelines will be provided later
Final presentation (10%)