Office: 6373 Comp Sci and Stat
Email: 
Office hours: Monday 2:15-3:15 PM (starting at lecture room)
Friday 3:00-4:00 PM
or by appointment
Email: mulvihil@cs.wisc.edu
Office hours: Tuesday & Thursday 10:00-11:00 AM
Friday 2:15-3:00 PM
or by appointment
Time: 1:00 - 2:15 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Place: 2345 Engineering Hall (different than timetable)
This course should meet for two lectures for fifteen weeks.
I have scheduled three lecture slots to front-load the course
to enable better projects and to accommodate some travel.
Thus, approximately fifteen lectures will be cancelled.
Approximate Lecture Notes: (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison only)
(Please, print close to when the topics are covered,
since I may revise them.)
David Culler and J. P. Singh with Anoop Gupta
Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
Available at bookstore.
Students will be taught to read the literature through many papers:
- Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi,
Readings in Computer Architecture,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.
- 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, 3rd Ed., 2003.
- William Dally and Brian Towles,
Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003.
- Jose Duato, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, and Lionel Ni,
Interconnection Networks,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002.
- Harold Stone,
High-Performance Computer Architecture,
Addison-Wesley, 3rd Ed., 1993.
The default project is to do some original research in a group of
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 when we have at approximately
50% and 100% of lectures. Since the course is "front-loaded,"
these exams occur earlier in the semester than they might otherwise.
They are tentatively scheduled for:
- Wed, February 18
- Mon April 5
There will be no final exam, so you can concentrate on your project.
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.
To facilitate great class discussions, students must submit an email
review of selected papers at least two hours before the lecture on the
day the paper will be covered. I will add dates for selected papers
in the reader and announce them in class or via the course email list.
Late reviews will not be accepted.
Reviews should be emailed to the TA
(mulvihil@cs.wisc.edu)
with:
- Subject: 757 Review of Author1 et al.: Title of Paper1.
The body of the message should be 20 to 50 lines with:
- a paragraph summarizing the problem attacked or goal of the paper,
- a paragraph summarizing the paper's methods (if any) and results, and
- a paragraph giving your opinion of what is good and bad about the paper.
University and L&S
Policies will be followed strictly in this course.
Please, pay particular attention
to policies on
academic misconduct
and
incompletes.
Don't forget that the person you would be cheating the most is yourself.
- 30% Project
- 25% Midterm I
- 25% Midterm II
- 15% Homework & Paper Summaries
- 5% Class Participation
| Week |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
| Jan 19 | no class yet |
Introduction |
continued |
| Jan 26 | Parallel Programming |
continued |
Symmetric Multiprocessors 1 |
| Feb 2 | continued |
Symmetric Multiprocessors 2 |
continued |
| Feb 9 | no class |
catch-up |
no class, but Review 6pm Feb 12 |
| Feb 16 | no class |
Exam 1 |
Chip Multiprocessors 1 |
| Feb 23 | continued |
Distributed Shared Memory 1 |
continued |
| Mar 1 | continued |
Chip Multiprocessors 2 |
Scalable Systems |
| Mar 8 | continued |
continued |
catch-up |
| Mar 15 | Spring Break |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
| Mar 22 | Interconnects |
continue |
continue |
| Mar 29 | SIMD, etc. |
Blue Sky |
Review |
| Apr 5 | Exam 2 |
no class |
no class |
| Apr 12 | no class |
no class |
no class |
| Apr 19 | no class |
no class |
no class |
| Apr 26 | no class |
no class |
no class |
| May 3 | Project Talks |
continued |
continued |
