CS/ECE 757 Advanced Computer Architecture II Spring 2012 Section 1 Instructor Mark D. Hill and Assistant Jayneel Gandhi URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs757/Spring2012/

Lecture

Time:           1:00 - 2:15 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Place:          101 Psychology (NEW ROOM)

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 Schedule & Readings

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Date	Topic	Text	Readings
Mon Jan 23	Introduction		read Olukotun&Hammond Queue05 read Sutter&Larus Queue05 reference Multiprocessor Issue Queue05 reference Hill CSTB04
Wed Jan 25	752 Highlights		Students who just took CS/ECE 752 need not attend reference 752 Highlights review Kongetira et al. Micro05 reference Laudon Niagara 2006 Slides
Fri Jan 27	Introduction	4.1	review Esmaeilzadeh et al. ISCA11 skim LLNL Tutorial
Mon Jan 30	Programming		due HW0 review Hillis&Steele CACM86 skim LLNL OpenMP Tutorial reference OpenMP 838 Lecture Notes reference OpenMP Home Page
Wed Feb 1	Programming	4.5	review Mellor-Crummey&Scott TOCS91 skim LLNL pThreads Tutorial reference pThreads 838 Lecture Notes reference pThread Home Page
Fri Feb 3	Methods 1	4.8	read Woo et al. ISCA95 review Hill&Marty Computer08 reference Hill AmdahlTalk10 reference Bienia&Li MBS09
Mon Feb 6	Programming		due HW1 skim LLNL MPI Tutorial reference MPI 838 Lecture Notes reference MPI Standard
Wed Feb 8	no lecture
Fri Feb 10	no lecture
Mon Feb 13	Consistency	4.6	due HW2 read SHW11 Chapter 2 review SHW11 Chapter 3 reference Lamport TransComputer79
Wed Feb 15	Consistency		review SHW11 Chapter 4 reference Sewell et al. CACM10 read SHW5.1-5.2 (to anticipate next class)
Fri Feb 17	Consistency		review SHW11 Chapter 5 read Boehm&Adve PLDI08 reference Adve&Gharachorloo Computer96 reference Manson et al. POPL05
Mon Feb 20	Coherence 1	4.2	read SHW11 Chapter 6 review SHW11 Chapter 7
Wed Feb 22	Coherence 1		review Hammond Micro00 read Hill Computer98 reference Charlesworth Micro98
Fri Feb 24	Methods 2	4.3	read Ferdman et al. ASPLOS12 reference Hardavellas et al. CIDR07 review gem5 CAN11 reference gems Tutorial slides gem5 Tutorial (short) lecture notes gem5 Home Page
Mon Feb 27	no lecture
Wed Feb 29	Exam 1
Fri Mar 2	Coherence 2	4.4	review SHW11 Chapter 8 read Laudon&Lenoski ISCA97 read SHW11 Chapter 9 reference Sorin et al. TPDS02 reference Example coherence controllers
Mon Mar 5	Coherence 2		read Marty&Hill Micro08 review Zhang&Asanovic ISCA05 lecture notes Virtual Hierarchy Slides lecture notes Victim Replications Slides skim Martin et al. Micro03 reference Stuecheli HotChips07 reference Le et al. IBMJR&D07
Wed Mar 7	Transactional Memory		due HW3 skim Herlihy&Moss ISCA93 review Moore et al. HPCA06 lecture notes LogTM talk skim Dalessandro et al. PPOPP10 reference Harris et al. Synthesis10
Fri Mar 9	SIMD		review Tucker&Robertson Computer88 skim Gokhale et al. Computer95 reference Leiserson et al. JPDC95
Mon Mar 12	SIMD		review Hennessy&Patterson AQA11 (4.4-4.10) (hardcopy) read Ryoo et al. PPoPP08 reference Nickolls&Dally Computer07 reference Hennessy&Patterson AQA11 GPU Rosetta Stone reference NVidia TR10 lecture notes Illinois CUDA Slides reference Weiser Talk@UW09
Wed Mar 14	Scalable Systems	4.9	read Desai et al. IBMJR&D05 skim Barroso et al. Micro03 review Chapter 1 Barroso&Hölzle, Synthesis09 lecture notes Seamicro HotCHips11 reference Dean&Ghemawat OSDI04 reference Seitz CACM85
Fri Mar 16	Scalable Systems		review Scott ASPLOS96 skim Koch LANL08 lecture notes Sodani Keynote Micro11 lecture notes Keckler Keynote Micro11
Mon Mar 19	Interconnects	E.1-4	lecture notes 3 Lectures on ICNs lecture notes 3 Lectures on ICNs (all in pdf) reference Enright-Jerger&Peh, Synthesis09
Wed Mar 21	Interconnects	E.5-8
Fri Mar 23	Interconnects		review Kim et al. ISCA05 read Mukherjee et al. Micro02
Mon Mar 26	no lecture
Wed Mar 28	Isolation		due project proposal read Sanchez&Kozyrakis ISCA11 lecture notes Sanchez&Kozyrakis ISCA11 talk read Nesbit et al. ISCA07 lecture notes Nesbit talk
Fri Mar 30	Dataflow		review Lee&Hurson Computer94 reference Arvind&Nikhil TransComputer90 reference Gagan&Sohi MICRO11 lecture notes Gagan&Sohi MICRO11 Slides
Mon Apr 2	Spring Break
Wed Apr 4	Spring Break
Fri Apr 6	Spring Break
Mon Apr 9	no lecture
Wed Apr 11	Miscellaneous		review Seiler et al. SIGGRAPH08 read Kahle et al. IBMJR&D05 read Govindaraju et al. HPCA11 lecture notes Govindaraju et al. HPCA11 Slides reference Baron MPR10
Fri Apr 13	Exam 2
Mon Apr 16	no lecture
Wed Apr 18	no lecture
Fri Apr 20	no lecture
Mon Apr 23	no lecture		due project progress report
Wed Apr 25	no lecture
Fri Apr 27	no lecture
Mon Apr 30	no lecture
Wed May 2	no lecture
Fri May 4	no lecture
Mon May 7	Project Talks 1
Tue May 8	Project Talks 2		5:15-7:00pm in 1221 CSS
Wed May 9	Project Talks 3
Fri May 11	no lecture
Tue May 15	no lecture		due project report at 8:59am