CSE 548, Winter 2004

CSE 548 - Winter 2004

Computer Systems Architecture

Announcements:

Welcome!
Course handout/syllabus (pdf)
Project (pdf)
Homework (pdf)
Note: You should get the 3rd (most recent) edition of the H&P book
We have moved to MGH 234

Midterm Documents

Final exam:

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Readings and Lecture Notes

Monday 2/5	Introduction
Wednesday 2/7	The Engineering Design of the Strech Computer H&P Appendix A.1 - A.4 (Weighted towards the front/skim the back).
Monday 2/12	Excerpts from Design of a Computer: the Control Data 6600 Parallel Operation in the Control Data 6600
Wednesday 2/14	An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting Multiple Arithmetic Units HPS, a new microarchitecture: rationale and introduction
Wednesday 2/21	A Preliminary Architecture for a Basic Data-flow Processor Two Fundamental Limits on Dataflow Multiprocessing
Monday 2/26	Very Long Instruction Word Architectures and The ELI-512 Retrospective: The ELI-512 A Design Space Evaluation of Grid Processor Architectures
Wednesday 2/28	A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies Retrospective: A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies H&P Pages 196-215 (If you do not have the H&P book yet) An Analysis of Correlation and Predictability: What Makes Two Level Branch Predictors Work Optional: A Language for Describing Predictors for Automatic Synthesis
Monday 2/2	Trace Cache: A Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching Optional: Section in H&P about caches as background depending upon your prior experience
Wednesday 2/5	The Microarchitecture of SuperScalar Processors
Wednesday 2/18	Limits of Control Flow on Parallelism
Monday 2/23	Clock Rate versus IPC Optimizing Pipelines for Power and Performance
Wednesday 2/25	Martha Andrew Atri & Parag
Monday 3/1	Charlie & Chris Tyler & Benson Lucas & Steve
Wednesday 3/3	Swapna & Daniel Abhishek Alex & Xu Muthu & Bhushan
Monday 3/8	Cache Coherence Protocols: Evaluation using a Multiprocessor Simulation Model
Wednesday 3/10	Read the abstracts from the papers here