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Class
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Topic
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Reading
Some Appendices are located on the publisher's website
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Milestones
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Dynamic Branch Prediction
3/31, 4/2
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What this class is about
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Review of pipelining
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Section 3.1. If the review in lecture isn't jogging your memory, consult Appendix C.1-C.4.
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Branch prediction
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Appendix C, pp. 26-30; Sections 3.3 and 3.9, pp. 202-208
Project report guidelines,
and sample project report
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Memory Hierarchy
4/7
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Review of caching
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No class.
4/9
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Memory Hierarchy
4/14
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Advanced caching techniques
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Section 2.2
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Execution Cores
4/16, 4/21, 4/23
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Superscalars and static scheduling
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Overview of dynamic scheduling
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Section 3.4 to p.170, Section 2.8
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Tomasulo's algorithm
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Section 3.4, p.170 to its end;
Section 3.5
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Branch prediction homework due Thursday, April 16, before class.
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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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Midterm 1
4/28
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Exam is 1.5 hours
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Multiprocessors
4/30, 5/5, 5/7, 5/12
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Overview of multiprocessing
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Section 5.1
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Cache coherency
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Section 5.2, Section 5.4
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Cache homework due, Tuesday, May 5, before class.
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Synchronization
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Section 5.5
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Wrap-up multiprocessing
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MP Scaling for Graph Algorithms
Jacob Nelson (CSE post-doc)
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This paper,
"Cora: A Latency-Tolerant Runtime for Large-Scale Irregular Applications" is just FYI.
You're not responsible for reading it.
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First coherency milestone due, Tuesday, May 12, before class.
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No class.
5/14
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Multithreading
5/19
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An Overview of Multithreading and Simultaneous Multithreading
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Section 3.5 and the SMT paper
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Combining ILP and TP
5/26, 5/28
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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 simulations done, Tuesday, May 26, before class.
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Wavescalar architecture and implementation
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Skim The WaveScalar Architecture and
An overview of the WaveScalar implementation.
Use this to reinforce what we discuss in lecture; don't pay much attention to any
new material covered in these papers.
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The Wave of the Future
6/2
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FPGAs -- Silicon for Procrastinators, Andrew Putnam (Microsoft Research, formerly CSE Grad Student)
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This paper,
"A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services", discusses much of what will be in Andrew's talk. It will be useful for your report.
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N Wrongs Make a Right: Saving Time and Energy with Approximate Computing, Adrian Sampson (CSE Grad Student)
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This paper,
Architecture Support for Disciplined Approximate Computing, discusses much of what will be in Adrian's talk. It will be useful for your report.
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The Wave of the Future
6/4
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This class will be in CSE305, because we're taping it. Energy Harvesting, Josh Smith (CSE faculty)
Course evaluation -
Bring a portable machine that will enable you to fill out the evaluation. |
This paper,
Dewdrop: An Energy-Aware Runtime for Computational RFID, discusses much of what will be in Josh's talk. It will be useful for your report.
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Coherency report due, Thursday, June 4, before class.
Guest lecture write-up due, Friday, June 5, 5pm.
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Midterm 2
6/8 10:30
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Exam is 2 hours
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