Date	Week/Day	Topics	Notes
8/21	1/Tue	Introduction. Trends in Computer Architecture.
8/23	1/Thu	Evaluation and Metrics
8/28	2/Tue	Pipelining and ILP
8/30	2/Thu	Dependencies. Register Renaming.
9/4	3/Tue	Dynamic Instruction Scheduling (Tomasulo)
9/6	3/Thu	Dynamic Instruction Scheduling (Modern processors).
9/11	4/Tue	Speculative Execution. Exceptions and Interrupts.
9/13	4/Thu	Branch Prediction. Instruction Delivery.
9/18	5/Tue	Static Scheduling. Compiler ILP Techniques.
9/20	5/Thu	Pentium Pro
9/25	6/Tue	Pentium 4
9/27	6/Thu	Virtual Memory, Protection, and Caches
10/2	7/Tue	Memory Technology. Prefetching.
10/4	7/Thu	Midterm	Project description posted.
10/9	8/Tue	Fall Recess
10/11	8/Thu	Multi-threading and multi-processing, SMT	Friday 10/12 is drop day.
10/16	9/Tue	CMP (Multi-core), SMP
10/18	9Thu	Synchronization and Consistency
10/23	10/Tue	Large-scale multiprocessing and NUMA
10/25	10/Thu	Many-core processors
10/30	11/Tue	Scalability of Performance
11/1	11/Thu	Transactional Memory
11/6	12/Tue	Helper Threads
11/8	12/Thu	Debugging and Monitoring Support	Project status report due.
11/13	13/Tue	Reliability and Redundancy
11/15	13/Thu	Emerging Reliability Challenges
11/20	14/Tue	Secure Processors
11/22	14/Thu	School Holiday
11/27	15/Tue	Storage Systems
11/29	15/Thu	Interconnection Networks	Project final report due.
12/4	16/Tue	No Class
12/6	16/Thu	Review (Q&A format).
12/10 - 12/14		Finals week