CSE470: Computer Architecture II

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SUBMIT PROJECT PRESENTATIONS AND DOCUMENTS HERE BY JUNE 5TH HERE !!

• April 3rd
  The Engineering Design of the Stretch Computer
  (Skim)Understanding Stretch
  (Optional) Good stuff
  
• April 5th
  (Required, skim) IBM 360 Pictures & discussion
  (Required, skim) officla IBM 360 history
  (Required) An Efficient Algoirhtm for Exploiting Multiple Functional Units
  (Optional) The IBM System/360 Model 91 Machine Philosphy and Instruction Handling
  (Optional) HPSm
  
• April 10th
  (Required) C:\BELLBO~1\COMPSR&E\HTMFILES\00000509.HTM (gordonbell.azurewebsites.net)
  (Required, skim) Thorton-Design-of-A-Computer-6600-Scoreboard.pdf (washington.edu)
  (Optional) CDC 6600 Links (clemson.edu)
  (Optional, but fun) Considerations in computer design - leading up to the Control Data 6600, 1963. (computerhistory.org)
  (Optional, long) cdc.6600.thornton.design_of_a_computer_the_control_data_6600.1970.102630394.pdf (computerhistory.org)
  
• April 12th
  (Required) The Cray-1 Computer System, 1977 (computerhistory.org)
  (Optional but fun) Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL) - YouTube
  (Optional but silly) Homebrew Cray-1A – chrisfenton.com
  
• April 17th
  (Required) https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep548/05sp/gurd-cacm85-prototype.pdf
  (Required, skim) limits.pdf (cornell.edu)
  (Optional) Dennis-Dataflow.pdf (washington.edu)
  (Optional) top.dvi (mit.edu)
  (Optional, skim) Two Fundamental Issues in Multiprocessing | Proceedings of the 4th International DFVLR Seminar on Foundations of Engineering Sciences: Parallel Computing in Science and Engineering (acm.org)
  
• April 19th>
  (Required, skim) C:\BELLBO~1\COMPUT~1\HTMFILES\00000511.HTM (gordonbell.azurewebsites.net)
  (Required - read fully, short) 01646402.pdf (ieeecomputer.org)
  (Required, skim, but very good) what have we learned from the pdp-11 1977 c.pdf (gordonbell.azurewebsites.net)
  (Optional but awesome) Javascript PDP 11/70 Emulator (skn.noip.me)
  (Optional but lots here) Index of /pdf/dec/pdp11 (bitsavers.org)
  
• April 24th
  (Required, Read Ch1, Ch2, skim Ch3) A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence (cmu.edu) Sounds like a lot but its fast.
  (Required, slide deck, skim) PowerPoint Presentation (ucr.edu) just skim this. might be worth skimming this first and if it's confusing then read the paper above.
  (Optional-ish, skim and focus on the Sequent Balance 8000 stuff) download;jsessionid=233DE4D1574ED905E4270305112E3927 (psu.edu)
  (Optional) Scalable shared-memory multiprocessor architectures - Computer (wisconsin.edu)
  
• April 26th
  (Required, slidedeck) Microsoft PowerPoint - SCC-80-core-cern-pub.ppt (ucsd.edu)
  (Required) ILLIAC IV, 1974 (computerhistory.org)
  (Optional, slidedeck) HammerBlade_Manycore_FOSDEM_2020.pdf
  
• May 1st
  (Required, all) Fisher-VLIW.pdf (washington.edu)
  (Optional, recommended) VLIW_retrospective.pdf (hp.com)
  (Required, read fast/skim) patterson80.pdf (berkeley.edu)
  (Optional, but highly recommend) www.cs.uccs.edu/~xzhou/teaching/CS4520/Assignment/papers/R1_Comment_Case_RISC_SigArchNews_patterson.pdf
  
• May 3rd
  NVIDIA Ampere
  Optional https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5452013/authors
  
• May 8th
  Intel Skylake
  
• May 10th
  (required) AMULET1_ieee97.pdf (manchester.ac.uk)
  (Optional but interesting) lipsi.pdf (jopdesign.com)
  (Optional) MSP430FR6005 data sheet, product information and support | TI.com
  
• May 15th
  (Required) Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
  (Required) Is Dark Silicon Useful?
  
• May 17th
  (Required) Allen School Distinguished Lecture: David Patterson (UC Berkeley + Google)
  (Required) ASPLOS'23 - Keynote by Bryan Catanzaro, NVIDIA
  
• May 22nd
  (Required, start 1h 6m in until the end) HotChips Talk
  (Required, skim) Anton