UW-Madison
Computer Sciences Dept.

CS/ECE 752 Advanced Computer Architecture I Fall 2006 Section 1
Instructor David A. Wood and T. A. Arini Balakrishnan
URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~david/courses/cs752/Fall2006/

Paper Reviews and Class Participation

Students are expected to have completed the assigned readings before attending class and actively participate in discussions. Students are encouraged to form groups to discuss papers before class.

To facilitate great class discussions, students must submit an email review of selected papers at least 30 minutes before the lecture for which the paper is assigned. Late reviews will not be accepted and the time is based on when the email is received, not sent.

It is possible that this schedule will change somewhat, and, if so, I will send email a few days in advance.

Reviews should be emailed to the TA (arinib@cs.wisc.edu) with:

  • Subject: 752 Review of Author1 et al.: Title1.

The ASCII body of the message (NOT an attachment; NOT HTML) should be 20 to 40 lines (maximum 3200 characters) with:

  • a short paragraph summarizing the problem attacked or goal of the paper,
  • a short paragraph summarizing the paper's methods (if any) and results, and
  • a short paragraph giving your opinion of what is good and bad about the paper.

Reviews will be graded on a scale of Excellent (10 points), Satisfactory (7 points), and Unsatisfactory (3 points). Reviews that are too long will automatically receive an Unsatisfactory grade. We may grade reviews via sampling (i.e., grade all reviews but for only some of the papers).

Students are encouraged to discuss the papers before writing their reviews, but each student must write their own independent review. Reading another student's review prior to submitting your own constitutes academic misconduct.

Reader 1 Review Due Dates & Assignments:

  • Due Thurs Sept 7, 752 Review of Moore: Cramming More Components ...
  • Due Tues Sept 12, 752 Review of Patterson: Latency lags Bandwidth
  • Due Thurs Sept 14, 752 Review of Wulf: Compilers and Computer Architecture
  • Due Tues Sept 19, 752 Review of Emer & Clark: A Characterization ... VAX-11/780
  • Due Thurs Sept 21, 752 Review of Yeh & Patt: Two-level Adaptive Training Branch Prediction
  • Due Tues Sept 26, 752 Review of Ernst: A Low-Power Pipeline Based ...
  • Due Thurs Sept 28, 752 Review of McNairy/Soltis: Itanium 2 Processor Microarchitecture
  • Due Tues Oct 3, 752 Review of Smith & Pleszkun: Implementing Precise Interrupts...
  • Due Thurs Oct 12, 752 Review of Yeager: The MIPS R10000 ...
  • Due Tues Oct 12, 752 Review of Mutlu: Runahead Execution ...
  • Due Thurs Oct 17, Review of Srinivasan: Continual Flow Pipelines
  • Due Tues Oct 17, 752 Review of Gochman: The Intel Pentium M Processor ...

Reader 2 Review Due Dates & Assignments:

  • Due Thurs Oct 26, 752 Review of Russell: The Cray-1 Computer System
  • Due Tues Nov 7, 752 Review of Jouppi: Improving Direct-Mapped Cache Performance ...
  • Due Tues Nov 9, 752 Review of Albonesi: Selective Cache Ways ...
  • Due Thurs Nov 14, 752 Review of Kim: An Adaptive, Non-Uniform Cache ...
  • Due Tues Nov 16, 752 Review of Vogt, Fully Buffered DIMM ...
  • Due Thurs Nov 21, 752 Review of Jacob: Virtual Memory on ...
  • Due Tues Nov 28, 752 Review of Patterson, et al.: A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
  • Due Tues Nov 30, 752 Review of Tullsen et al.: ... Simultaneous Multithreading Processor
  • Due Thurs Dec 5, 752 Review of Kongetira: Niagara ...
  • Due Tues Dec 7, 752 Review of Adams: A Comparison of...
  • That's It!