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Topic
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Reading
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Project Milestones
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Dynamic Branch Prediction
4/1 & 4/3
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Review of pipelining
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Dynamic branch prediction
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Read sections 2.3 and 2.9: pp. 121-127.
Read SimpleScalar documentation, project report guidelines & sample project report
(available from the homework section).
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Predicated execution
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Read Appendix G.4.
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Execution cores
4/8, 4/10 & 4/15
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Superscalars & static scheduling
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Basic simulation homework due April 8.
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Overview of dynamic scheduling
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Read section 2.4 to p. 92, section 2.8.
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Tomasulo's algorithm
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Read section 2.4, pp. 92 to its end, and section 2.5.
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R10000-style dynamic scheduling (a physical register pool)
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The Smith/Sohi article for superscalars in a nutshell.
In the R10000 article read from register mapping,
p. 32, through Register files, p. 35.
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VLIW Processors
4/17
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Software techniques to exploit ILP
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Section G-3 covers compiler techiques that we will discuss briefly.
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VLIW machines
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Read section 2.7 and G.6 through p. G-40. It's not necessry to know all the
details of this architecture. Let the lecture be your guide.
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Memory Hierarchy
4/22
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Advanced caching techniques
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Read section 5.2.
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Branch prediction homework due 4/22
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Midterm 1
4/24
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Midterm is in class, 1.5 hours.
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Multiprocessors
4/29, 5/1, 5/6 & 5/8
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Overview of multiprocessing
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Read section 4.1.
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Execution core homework due 5/8
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Cache coherence, snooping and directory protocols
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Read sections 4.2 and 4.4.
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Synchronization
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Read section 4.5.
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Multithreading
5/13 & 5/15
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Tera-style multithreading
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Read the Tera paper (PDF).
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Simultaneous multithreading
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Read section 3.5 and the SMT paper.
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Dataflow Computers
5/20 & 5/22
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Dataflow machines
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After reading them over, I don't think any of the papers on the early dataflow machines
are appropriate for classroom use. There are no general overview papers. So just listen to
the lecture.
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Coherency protocol design due 5/22.
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WaveScalar architecture and implementation.
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The WaveScalar Architecture and
An overview of the WaveScalar implementation.
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No class
5/27
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The End Game
5/29
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Wrap-up and course evaluations.
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Guest Lecturers
6/3
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David Bacon on Quantum Computing
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The
Scientific American article will provide an overview of the technology.
The
UW research paper discusses a particular quantum architecture. Both are optional reading.
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Cache coherency homework due 6/3
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Luis Ceze on Hardware Support for Debugging Multiprocessors
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The
ISCA paper covers what Luis will talk about. It's optional reading, but I thought you
might enjoy tackling a research-level paper in mainstream computer architecture.
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Midterm 2
6/5
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Midterm is in class, 2 hours.
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