CS/ECE 757: Advanced Computer Architecture II
Spring 2002 Section 1 of 1
URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs757/Spring2002/
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Office: 6373 Comp Sci and Stat
Email: 
Office hours: 1:30-2:30 Monday
2:30-3:30 Wednesday
or by appointment
Email: xu@cs.wisc.edu
Office hours: By appointment (since Min paid only a few hours per week)
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 Tuesday and Thursday
Place: 2265 Engineering
Approximate Lecture Notes: (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison only)
(Please, print close to when the topics are covered,
since I may revise them.)
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:
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.
All university policies
will be followed. Please say particular attention to
academic misconduct issues.
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 |
Topic |
| Jan 22 | Introduction (Chapter 1) |
continued |
| Jan 29 | continued |
Parallel Programing (2, 3, & 4) |
| Feb 5 | continued |
continued |
| Feb 12 | continued |
Symmetric Multiprocessors 1 (5) |
| Feb 19 | continued |
Symmetric Multiprocessors 2 (6) |
| Feb 26 | continued |
continued |
| Mar 5 | Catch-up/Review |
MIDTERM1? |
| Mar 12 | Scalable Multiprocessors (7) |
continued |
| Mar 19 | Distributed Shared Memory 1 (8) |
continued |
| Mar 26 | SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
| Apr 2 | continued |
Distributed Shared Memory 2 (9 & 11) |
| Apr 9 | continued |
Interconnection Networks (10) |
| Apr 16 | continued |
continued |
| Apr 23 | SIMD (readings) |
Future Trends (12) |
| Apr 30 | Catch-up/Review |
MIDTERM2? |
| May 7 | Project Presentations |
continued |
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