CSE470: COMPUTER ARCH II

Welcome. This will serve as the primary website for CSE 470 for Spring 2017. Please visit here for basic course information and links to the websites for earlier quarters.

Readings

April 24: Modern CISC Processors

Required:
Nehalem Architecture (Pages 1-18)

April 26: Modern CISC Processors (Part 2)

Required:
Nehalem Architecture (Pages 19-29)

Optional:
Pages 30-46 of Required reading

May 1: GPU Architectures

Required:
AMD GCN Architecture
NVIDIA GPU Architecture

Optional:
AMD Kaveri Review
Intel Haswell Review
Intel Haswell Architecture Overview

May 3: Midterm Exam

May 8: GPU Architectures (Continued from above)

May 10: Living Computers Museum Visit

May 15: Hardware Specialization

Required:
Dark Silicon Design Approaches
Bitcoin in the Age of Bespoke Silicon

May 17: NO CLASS

May 22: Quantum Computing

Required:
A Si-based Surface Code Quantum Computer
Software and Architectures for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

May 24: Sabey Data Center Visit (Tukwila, WA)

Please sign the NDA in advance and email to Logan if you want to attend.

May 29: Memorial Day Holiday (No Class)

May 31: Second Midterm Exam

Slides

LINKS TO STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lectures will be posted as soon as they are available.

Assignments

Assignment 1: Due 4/14 @ 5pm

The following profilers are available on Windows:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/commercialize/test/wpt/index
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff552060(v=vs.85).aspx
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/debuggingtoolbox/2009/10/12/special-commandtracing-applications-using-wt/
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pintool/
https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/522920

Assignment 2: Due 5/12 @ 5pm

The following languages/frameworks are availble for writing parallel code (others allowed too):
https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/
https://www.cilkplus.org
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh875062.aspx
https://www.khronos.org/opencl/
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc983823.aspx

Assignment 3:

While at the Living Computers Museum, use any computer and write and execute any piece of code.
Take a picture of the output and the program and email to the TAs.
The simplest acceptable program is one that prints the numbers from 1 to 10 in a loop.

Exams

Midterm I - May 3 (Wednesday)

Covers material up to Nehalem Architecture
Format is 3 essay questions, closed notes
If you have done the reading it should be easy

Midterm II - May 31 (Wednesday)

Covers material from Nehalem Architecture
Format is 3 essay questions, closed notes

Contact

TAs

Logan Adams - lsadams@uw
Xinyu Sui - suix2@uw

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