Thursday, Jan 9

Lecture slides (the CEASER slides are from Moin Qureshi's presentation at intro.pptx)

Readings:

You must read Moin Qureshi's CEASER paper below. The rest are for your reference as they provide necessary background for appreciating CEASER.

You must read the Morpheus paper below.

Please fill in the questionnaire before the lecture on Thursday and submit through Quercus.

Out-of-Order Processing Core Structures: Complexity Analysis and Clustered Cores: slides Reading: Complexity Effective Superscalar Processors

Introduction to the simplescalar OOO processor simulator: slides Simplescalar User's Manual

OOO Scheduler Optimizations: slides

Multiscalar: sides RePlay: slides

SlipStream: slides

Critical Path Prediction: slides

Critical Path Prediction Contd.

Runahead Execution

DaDianNao: slides

Papers to read:

Continued discussion of DaDianNao and Eyeriss

Finished discussion of Eyeriss. Covered also EIE/Deep Compression (slides and papers: 1, 2) and intro to SCNN (slides and paper).

We will go over over the following:

Micro-architecture Side-Channel Based Attacks: Using the LLC Meltdown and Spectre