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| Date |
Lecture |
Readings/Reviews Out(due Monday night before next class) |
Note |
| Jan 10 |
Intro (
pptx,
pdf,
);
|
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| Jan 17 |
Background and Projects (
pptx,
pdf,
fillins.pdf,
);
|
Review:
Berkeley;
|
| Jan 24 |
Interconnects and Coherence (
pdf,
pptx,
fillins.pdf,
)
|
Review:
Stenstrom
|
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| Jan 31 |
Consistency (
pdf,
pptx,
fillins.pdf,
)
|
Review:
Hill;
|
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| Feb 07 |
Parallel Programming (
pdf,
pptx,
fillins.pdf
)
|
(no reading this week)
|
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| Feb 14 |
Threading (
pdf,
pptx,
)
|
Review:
1: Physical Experimentation with Prefetching Helper Threads on Intels Hyper-Threaded Processors;
2: Speculative Precomputation on Chip Multiprocessors;
3: Dynamic Helper Threaded Prefetching on the Sun UltraSPARC CMP Processor;
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|
| Feb 21 |
No Class: Reading Week
|
|
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| Feb 28 |
Spreading (
pdf,
ppt,
)
|
Review:
1: Computation Spreading;
2: Data Spreading;
3: Log-Based Architectures;
|
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| Mar 06 |
Software Transactional Memory (
pdf,
pptx,
)
|
Review:
1: McRTSTM: A High Performance Software Transactional Memory System for a Multi-Core Runtime;
2: JudoSTM: A Dynamic Binary-Rewriting Approach to Software Transactional Memory;
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| Mar 13 |
Project Interim Presentations
|
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Project Interim Presentations
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| Mar 20 |
Hardware Transactional Memory (
pdf,
pptx,
)
|
Review:
1: LogTM: Log-Based Transactional Memory;
Optional readings:
1: AMD ASF;
2: Intel TSX;
3: TSX Details (Chapter 8);
|
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| Mar 27 |
Thread-Level Speculation (
pdf,
pptx,
)
|
1: A Scalable Approach to Thread-Level Speculation;
2: BulkSC;
|
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| Apr 03 |
Future Architectures (
pdf,
pptx,
)
|
Optional readings:
1: Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era;
2: CoreGenesis (a dynamic multicore);
2: Greendroid and Conservation Cores;
3: Single-Chip Heterogeneous Computing: Does the Future Include Custom Logic, FPGAs, and GPUs?;
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| Apr 10 |
Project Poster Session
|
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Project Poster Session
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| Apr 17 |
(no class)
|
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Project final reports due!
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