Lecture notes are available in both PowerPoint and PDF formats. Permission is granted to copy and distribute this material for educational purposes only, provided that the complete bibliographic citation and following credit line is included: "Copyright 2000, Krste Asanovic". Permission is granted to alter and distribute this material provided that the following credit line is included: "Adapted from (complete bibliographic citation). Copyright 2000, Krste Asanovic". This material may not be copied or distributed for commercial purposes without express written permission of the copyright holder.
Readings are listed on the date they will be discussed in class, and will be made available at least one week earlier (hardcopies in class or NE43-620 for those not available online).
In the table below, bold font is used for assigned readings and project deliverables. Italic font is used for the names of machines that we will examine in some depth.
All schedule information is preliminary and may change.
Date |
Topics |
Readings/References |
| 9/7 R | Class Introduction, Metrics | Lecture notes (PPT, PDF) |
| 9/12 T | VLSI for Architects | Lecture notes (PPT,
PDF), Mark Horowitz DAC'2000 slides (PPT, PDF). |
| 9/14 R | Alpha 21264 case study part 1: Microarchitecture & Performance |
Lecture notes (PPT,
PDF), kessler:micro:99 (Ken Conley, PPT, PDF), cvetanovic:isca:2000 (Mark Hampton, PPT, PDF) |
| 9/19 T | Alpha 21264 case study part 2: VLSI Implementation | gronowski:ijssc:1998
(Albert Ma,
PPT,
PDF), farrel:jssc:1998 (Mike Zhang) |
| 9/21 R | Limits of conventional microarchitecture scaling |
palacharla:isca:1997
(David Maze), (palacharla:isca:1997, alternate version, prints better), agarwal:isca:2000 (Ed Olson, PPT, PDF) |
| 9/26 T | Project proposal: written proposal + class presentation | Presentations only, no assigned readings |
| 9/28 R | Low Power Design |
Lecture notes (PPT,
PDF), chandrakasan:jssc:1992 + burd:jvsp:1996 |
| 10/3 T | Parallel Architecture Overview | Lecture notes, (PPT, PDF) |
| 10/5 R | Vectors Part 1: Cray-1, NEC SX-4/5 | russel:cacm:1978 + kolodzey:ieeetchmt:1981
(Serhii Zhak), hammond:sc:1996 + necsx5:1998 (Seongmoo Heo) |
| 10/10 T | No class: Columbus Day vacation | --- |
| 10/12 R | Vectors Part 2: Data Parallel Programming |
zagha:sc:1991
+
martin:ucb:1996
(Ripal Nathuji,
PPT,
PDF), appel:js:1989 + asanovic:unpub:1998 (Robert Lee) |
| 10/17 T | VLIW Part 1: ELI-512 and Multiflow Trace |
fisher:isca:1983 + fisher:isca25:1998 +
fisher:scc:1984 (Mike Phillips), colwell:sc:1990 (Ronny Krashinsky) |
| 10/19 R | First project checkpoint: report outline + class presentation | Presentations only, no assigned readings |
| 10/24 T | VLIW Part 2: Cydra-5 and Compilation Techniques |
rau:computer:1989 (Ken Barr), chang:ieeetc:1995 + mahlke:asplos5:1992 (Andrew Menard) |
| 10/26 R | VLIW Part 3: Compilation Techniques and IA-64 Itanium |
mahlke:isca:1995
+ august:isca:1999
(Serhii Zhak, PDF), huck:micro:2000 + sharangpani:micro:2000 (Mike Sung) |
| 10/31 T | Multithreading: Tera MTA |
Lecture notes, (PPT,
PDF) alverson:sc:1990 + alverson:ics:1997 + snavely:sc:1998 + brunett:sc:1998 |
| 11/2 R | No Class | Work on projects! |
| 11/7 T | Occam and Transputers |
Lecture notes (PPT,
PDF) Occam manual, Chapters 1, 2, & 5, walker:byte:1985 + plumb:misc:1997 (Jason Kim) |
| 11/9 R | No Class | Work on projects! |
| 11/14 T | No Class: ASPLOS-IX Conference, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge (Nov 13-15) |
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| 11/16 R | Guest Lecture: Berkeley IRAM Christoforos Kozyrakis, UC Berkeley Note: This will be at 4pm in the 6th floor playroom in NE43 |
kozyrakis:computer:1997 + kozyrakis:ms:1999 |
| 11/21 T | Second project checkpoint: report draft + class presentation | Presentations only, no assigned readings |
| 11/23 R | No class: Thanksgiving vacation | --- |
| 11/28 T | Reconfigurable Computing |
hauser:fccm:1997 +
callahan:computer:2000
(Enoch Peserico), mai:isca:2000 (Frank Honore) |
| 11/30 R | Guest Lecture: RAW Architecture and Compiler Michael Taylor and Walter Lee Note: This will be at 4:30pm in the 6th floor playroom in NE-43 |
waingold:computer:1997, lee:asplos:1998 + barua:isca:1999 |
| 12/5 T | Final project presentations Menard group Hampton group Barr group Course evaluation |
Presentations only, no assigned readings |
| 12/7 R | Final project presentations Lee group Krashinsky group Peserico group Heo group |
Presentations only, no assigned readings |
| 12/12 T | No class Final report due in 620. |
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