CSE 471, Autumn 2001

Computer Design and Organization

Announcements
Homeworks
Lectures
Handouts
Instructor and TAs
Class Meetings
Additional Readings
Help Resources
Hypermail Archive
Anonymous Feedback

Announcements

12/12

Lecture notes for synchronization are available.

12/7

Lecture notes for directory protocols are available.

12/5

Lecture notes for NUMA are available.

12/4

Lecture notes for snoopy protocols are available. Charlie Brown is extra.
Homework 6 is available.

11/30

Lecture notes for multiprocessors are available.

11/28

Lecture notes for virtual memory are available.

11/26

Lecture notes for memory hierarchy are available.

11/21

Lecture notes for main memory and assignment 5 are available.

11/16

Lecture notes for cache performance are available.

11/9

Lecture notes for cache intro and the answers to the midterm are available.

11/8

Lecture notes on multithreading are available.

11/5

Assignment 3 answers are available.

11/4

Assignment 4 is available.

11/2

Lecture notes on VLIW are now available, as is another paper in the additional readings.

10/29

Lecture notes on multiple issue and midterm and final from Winter 2000 (under handouts) are available.

10/27

An anonymous feedback form is now available.

10/26

Lecture notes on renaming are available.

10/24

Assignment 3 and the lecture notes on dynamic scheduling are available.

10/22

Lecture notes on multiple pipes and ILP are available.

10/21

Another paper in the additional reading section is available.

10/18

Section is still being held in MEB 248, until further notice.
Class is now being held in Loew 201.

10/17

The lecture notes on exceptions are now available

10/13

Assignment 1 sample solutions are available.

10/12

Another paper in the additional reading section is available.

10/11

Assignment 2 and the report guideline are now available

10/5

The lecture notes on branch prediction are now available
There is no section today.

10/4

The handout on using the SimpleScalar simulator is now available

10/3

Assignment 1 is now available
I've added an additional readings section.

10/2

The course introduction, outline and review are now available
I've added links to the Simplescalar website and the CSE lab guidelines.
TA office hours have been finalized.
The class mailing list has been ready for signups.

10/1

Welcome to CSE 471. Check the web page frequently for assignments and announcements.
Non-CSE majors should visit the Computer Science main office to obtain a CSE account if they do not already have one.
As of about 3:45pm today, the mailing list should be up. Send an e-mail to majordomo@cs.washington.edu with the following command in the body (not subject) of the message:
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On Monday October Professor Baer will be out of town. Section will be held instead of class, please bring questions about the first homework.
Thursday October 11th is the University Day of Reflection. There will be no CSE471 section.

Homeworks

Date Posted	Date Due	Number	PS	PDF	Sample solutions
10/3	10/10	1	X	X	Simplescalar configuration file, answers to questions
10/11	10/24	2	X	X
10/24	11/2	3	X	X	Answers
11/4	11/21	4	X	X
11/21	12/5	5	X	X
12/5	12/12	6	X	X

Lectures

Date	Topic	PPT	PDF
10/1	Review 1	X	X
10/5	Branch Prediction	X	X
10/17	Exceptions	X	X
10/22	Multiple pipes	X	X
10/22	ILP	X	X
10/24	Dynamic Scheduling	X	X
10/26	Renaming	X	X
10/29	Mulitple Instruction Issue	X	X
11/2	VLIW	X	X
11/5	Multithreading	X	X
11/9	Cache Intro	X	X
11/16	Cache Performance	X	X
11/21	Main Memory	X	X
11/26	Memory Hierarchy	X	X
11/28	Virtual Memory	X	X
11/30	Multiprocessors	X	X
12/4	Snoopy Protocols	X	X
12/5	NUMA	X	X
12/7	Directory Protocols	X	X
12/12	Synchronization	X	X

Handouts

Date	Topic	PS	PDF	HTML
10/1	Introduction	X	X
10/1	Outline	X	X
10/4	Using SimpleScalar Simulator at UW			X
10/11	Report guideline	X	X
10/29	Midterm Winter 2000	X	X
10/29	Final Winter 2000	X	X
11/9	Midterm Autumn 2001 answers	X	X

Instructor and TAs

Instructor

Name	Email	Office	Office Hours
Professor Jean-Loup Baer	baer@cs.washington.edu	211 Sieg Hall	M 1:30-2:30 F 2:30-3:30 or by appointment

Teaching Assistant

Name	Email	Office Hours Location	Office Hours
Douglas Low	douglas@cs.washington.edu	Sieg 226a / 2nd floor Sieg corridor	Tu 1:30-2:30 Sieg 226a, Th 1:30-2:30 2nd floor Sieg corridor

Class Meetings

Lecture

Days	Time	Place
MWF	10:30 - 11:20	MEB 248

Section

Days	Time	Place
Th	10:30 - 11:20	MEB 248

Additional Readings

	PS	PDF
J.Smith "Characterizing Computer Performance with a Single Number" CACM vol 31, 10, Oct 1988 pp 1202-1206	X	X
T-S. Yeh and Y.Patt "A Comparison of Dynamic Branch Prediction that use Two Levels of Branch History" Proc. 20th Int. Symp. Computer Architecture, 1993, pp 257-266	X	X
J.Smith and G. Sohi "The Architecture of Superscalar Microprocessors" Proc. IEEE, 83,12, Dec 1995	X	X
M.Schlansker and B. Rau "EPIC: Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing" Computer, Feb 2000, 37-45	X	X

Help Resources

Anonymous Feedback

Comments can be sent to the instructor or TAs using this anonymous feedback form.

Comments or questions about the web page, e-mail douglas@cs.washington.edu.