CSE549: High-Performance Computer Architecture

• April 2nd - Matt - ENIAC
  • reading 1
  • reading 2
  • reading 3 (optional)
  • reading 4
  • reading 5 (optional)
• April 7th - Mark W. - 7030
  • reading 1
  • reading 2
  • reading 3
• April 9th - Jacob - CDC 6600
  • reading 1 Optional but seriously a fun read
  • Either reading 2a(Chapters 1 and 2) or this reading 2b
  • Slide deck
  • reading 4Don't read this, you have better things to do, but this is awesome!
  • reading 5 Optional
  • (Optional) More good stuff: here and here and here. deadlock in CDC6600
• April 14th - Pete - B5000
  • Reading 0 (intro)
  • Reading 0 (alternate / Skim)
  • and another interesting one
  • Reading 1 (deep/technical)
  • reading (Optional/Skim, Fun!)
  • Optional (but also fun!)
• April 16th - Preston - PDP 10
  • Eveolution of the DECsystem-10
  • PDP-10 processor features
  • PDP-6 wikipedia, 6 -> 10
  • PDP-10 wikipedia, but also pretty good
  • ISA (skim)
  • PDP 10 jargon (optional, fun)
  • Optional
  • DEC 10 processor manual
  • The Design of Tex and Metafont: A Retrospective
  • The Design of Super Foonly
• April 21st - Lisp Machines - Ben W.
  • an actual ISCA paper!
  • MIT CONS
  • MIT CADR
  • The Lisp Machine
  • Worthy.
  • Worthy.
• April 23rd - GE 600 - Mark Z.
  • start here
  • then go here
  • finish here
  • (optional) worthy
  • (optional) Read section on processor
• April 28th - ia432 - Katelin
  • wiki
  • summary
  • SKim Hank's book
  • Optional ia432 VLSI manual
  • Optional ia432 Architecture manual
• May 5th - AP101B - Vincent
  • Overview
  • Chapter 4 of this
  • Optional
  • Optional
• May 7th - Balance 8000 - Ben R.
  • Fast read
  • Skim to find Sequent and Balance
  • Word
  • puff piece by the NYT
  • optional
• May 12th - CM-2 - Adrian
  • wikipedia
  • here (be sure to read all 5 sections)
  • and here
  • and finally here
• May 14th - Alpha 21264 - Venkatesh
  • Over slides
  • Over slides (different)
  • Paper
• May 19th - AMULET2e - Brandon M.
  • AMULET2e
  • Optional - backgroudn on async design
• May 21st - Cray I - Mark
  • wiki
  • youtube (yes really)
  • reading 1
  • fun read!
• May 28th - Multiflow - Brandon H.
  • Very Long Instruction Word Architectures and the ELI-512
  • Retrospective
  • Experiences with Dynamic Binary Translation
  • The Transmeta Code Morphing Software
  • How the Itanium Killed the Computer Industry
  • (Optional) IA-64 A Tutorial
• June 2nd - Anton - Theirry
  • reading
  • hot chips
  • NY times
• June 4th - HEP/MTA - Eric
  • HEP
  • Tera MTA slides
  • Tera HW/SW Co-operation