CS 757 Computer Architecture II Spring 2011 Section 1 Instructor David A. Wood URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~david/courses/cs757/Spring2011/

VERY Approximate Lecture Schedule

Week	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Jan 17	No class (MLK Day)	Course Introduction Read: Olukotun and Hammond Queue '05	Course Introduction Read: Sutter and Larus Queue '05 Review: Hill and Marty Computer '08
Jan 24	Programming Review: Hillis & Steele, CACM'96 skim LLNL OpenMP Tutorial reference OpenMP 838 Lecture Notes reference OpenMP Home Page	Programming Review: Message Passing Programing (MPI) skim LLNL MPI Tutorial reference MPI 838 Lecture Notes reference MPI Standard HW 0 due	752 Highlights/Review reference 752 Highlights
Jan 31	Programming Read: Sorin, Hill and Wood: Chapters 1-2 Review: Mellor-Crummey&Scott TOCS91 Reference: Woo et al.	Blizzard, No Class	Consistency I Review: Sorin, Hill and Wood: Chapters 3-4
Feb 7	Consistency II Review: Sorin, Hill and Wood: Chapters 5 Reference: Adve and Gharacharloo HW 1 due	Consistency III Read: Adve and Boehm, CACM 8/2010	No class
Feb 14	No class (HPCA) Project Teams due Monday		Coherence I Read: Sorin, Hill and Wood: Chapter 6 & Chapter 7.1-7.2 HW 2 due
Feb 21	Coherence II Read: Sorin, Hill and Wood: Chapter 7.3-7.8 Draft Proposals due	Review 1	Exam I
Feb 28	Coherence III Read: Sorin, Hill and Wood: Chapter 8.1-8.4 Revised Proposals due	Coherence IV Read: Sorin, Hill and Wood: Chapter 8.5-8.9 and Chapter 9	No Class
Mar 7	No Class (ASPLOS)	Transactional Memory skim Herlihy&Moss ISCA93 review Moore et al. HPCA06 read Damron et al. ASPLOS06 slides LogTM talk reference Larus&Rajwar, Synthesis07	Isolation read Aggarwal et al. Computer07 review Nesbit et al. ISCA07 reference Aggarwal talk reference Nesbit talk HW #3 due
Mar 14	Spring Break
Mar 21	SIMD review Tucker&Robertson Computer88 skim Gokhale et al. Computer95 reference Leiserson et al. JPDC95	SIMD review Ryoo et al. PPoPP08 reference Luebke&Humphreys Computer07 reference Lindholm et al., IEEE Micro08 reference NVidia TR07 lecture notes Illinois CUDA Slides reference Weiser Talk@UW09	Dataflow read Lee&Hurson Computer94 reference Arvind&Nikhil TransComputer90 lecture notes Wavescalar Micro03 Slides
Mar 28	No Class	No Class (Alumni Event)	Miscellaneous
Apr 4	Interconnects Read: Hennessy & Patterson, 4e, Appendix E.1-4 Notes: 3 Lectures on ICNs reference Enright-Jerger&Peh, Synthesis09	No Class	Interconnects Read: Hennessy & Patterson, 4e, Appendix E.5-8
Apr 11	Interconnects review Mukherjee et al. Micro02 read Kim et al. ISCA05	Scalable Systems review Chapter 1 Barroso&Holzle, Synthesis09 read Barroso et al. Micro03 skim Desai et al. IBMJR&D05 reference Dean&Ghemawat OSDI04	Scalable Systems review Scott ASPLOS96 read Abts et al. SC07 reference Apts Talk@UW07 reference Seitz CACM85
Apr 18	Review	Exam 2	No Class
Apr 25	No Class	No Class	No Class
May 2	No Class	No Class	Class Conference, 10am-4pm in 3310 CS
May 9	Final Report Due Wednesday May 11th, 9am