CS/ECE 757: Advanced Computer Architecture II
Spring 2001 Section 1 of 1
URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs757/Spring00-01/
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Mark Hill
on
Wed Apr 18 10:51:06 CDT 2001
Office: 6373 Comp Sci and Stat
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Office hours: 1:30-2:30 Tuesday
2:30-3:30 Friday
or by appointment
Office: 1301 Comp Sci and Stat
Email: shiliang@cs.wisc.edu
Phone: 262-6600
Office hours: 3:00 - 4:00 Monday
2:30 - 3:30 Thursday
or by appointment
David Culler and J. P. Singh with Anoop Gupta
Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
Available at bookstore.
See book's home page for auxiliary information or to order.
Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi
Readings in Computer Architecture
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.
*NOT* available at bookstore, because most purchased it for CS/ECE 752.
See book's home page for auxiliary information or to order.
Students will also be taught to read the literature through
that are mostly from:
- G. S. Almasi and A. Gottlieb,
Highly Parallel Computing,
Benjamin/Cummings, 2nd Ed., 1994.
- John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson,
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach,
Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd Ed., 1996.
- Harold Stone,
High-Performance Computer Architecture,
Addison-Wesley, 3rd Ed., 1993.
Time: 1:00 - 2:15 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Place: 121 Psychology
This class is over-scheduled. A three credit course needs
only two lectures per week. I will use the extra scheduling to
"front load" the course and to allow more time for the project.
For this reason, we can cancel approximately 15 lectures.
The 15 Lectures canceled are:
- Fri Feb 9
- Fri Feb 23
- Fri Mar 9 and Mon Mar 19 (around Spring Break)
- Mon Mar 26 and Mon Apr 2
- Fri Apr 13 and Mon Apr 16 (around Easter)
- Mon, Wed, & Fri Apr 23, 25, & 27 (before project presentations)
- Mon & Wed May 7 & 9 (after project presentations)
- 2 More TBA
Approximate Lecture Notes: (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison only)
The default project is to do some original research in a group of two
students. For example, you could examine a modest extension to a paper
studied in class or simply re-validate the data in some paper by
writing your own simulator. Alternatively, you may work alone
to write a paper that surveys an area within computer
architecture. Projects will include an oral presentation and a paper.
There will be two in-class exams at the 40% and 80% point of the
semester. They are tentatively scheduled for:
- Wed, Feb 21?
- Wed, Apr 11?
There will be no final exam, so you can concentrate on your project.
There will be a few assignments, but I am not sure since the TA has limited hours.
Assignments may require the review of material that is touched upon, but
not covered in depth in class. Assignments will not be weighted equally.
The approximate weights of each assignment will be specified when the
assignment is handed out. Assignments will be due in class on the
due date. NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED, except under extreme
non-academic circumstances discussed with the instructor at least one
week before the assignment is due.
University policy on incompletes and academic misconduct (inappropriate
activity, whole handbook)
will be followed strictly. Don't forget that the person you would be
cheating the most is yourself.
- 35% Project
- 25% Midterm I
- 25% Midterm II
- 10% Homework
- 5% Class Participation
| Week of |
Topic |
| Jan 22 | Introduction, parallel programming & methods (Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4) |
| Jan 29 | continued |
| Feb 5 | Symmetric Multiprocessors (5 & 6) |
| Feb 12 | continued |
| Feb 19 | Review, MIDTERM1? |
| Feb 26 | Scalable Multiprocessors (7, 8, 9, & 11) |
| Mar 5 | continued |
| Mar 12 | SPRING BREAK |
| Mar 19 | continued |
| Mar 26 | Interconnection Networks (10) |
| Apr 2 | Dataflow & future directions (readings, 12) | |
| Apr 9 | Review, MIDTERM2? |
| Apr 16 | Single Instruction Multiple Data (readings) |
| Apr 23 | Work on Projects? |
| Apr 30 | Project Presentations |
| May 7 | Work on Projects? |
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