CSE548: Computer Systems Architecture

Logistics

Lecture: MOR 225 10:00 - 11:20, Mondays and Wednesdays
Grading: 60% Project, 20% Participation, 20% Reading reports
Reading Reports: Broadly, we're looking for a brief summary of what you've read, as well as two questions to help fuel discussion. You'll submit your response via a Google Form.
- By "brief", we mean on the order of 5 sentences. Feel free to write more, but effective, brief communication is an important aspect of being a grad student.
Project: Details to come!

If BlackParrot is getting you down, post on the Course Piazza

Date	Presenter	Topic & Reading
9/25	Mark Oskin	Welcome, Introduction
9/30	Sam & Alexi	Architecture of the IBM System 360 (First 3 pages) The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer Comments on "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer" (Optional but HIGHLY recommended) Submit Your Response Here!
10/2	Christine & Travis	The CRAY-1 Computer System (all of it) Very Long Instruction Word Architectures and the ELI-512 (all of it) Retrospective: Very Long Instruction Word Architectures and the ELI-512 (Optional, but recommended) Merton's Resistance to the Systematic Study of Multiple Discoveries in Science Extremely Optional (and only tangentially related to architecture) but a really lovely read on the inevitability of multiple discoveries (e.g. how 4+ people deserve the "credit" for Von-Neuman architecture). If you're strapped for time, definitely skip it, but try to return to it when you have a chance. Submit Your Response Here! Learning Oppourtunity 1 is live! It's due on Monday, October 7th, at 4pm PDT. Submit your writeup as a PDF here.
10/7	Gorkem & Lukas	Tomasulo algorithm(All of it) HPS, A new microarchitecture: rationale and introduction (All of it) An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting Multiple Arithmetic Units (optional) Submit Your Response Here!
10/9	&;	A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies(All of it) Combining Branch Predictors (Required, but skim. Have a goal of 2min per page or less.) Submit your response here!
10/14	No class!	Learning Oppourtunity 2 is out! It's due 10/18, at 4pm PDT. Submit here.
10/21		Dynamic Speculation and Synchronization of Data Dependences (Required) WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION v. APPLE INC. (Skim) Submit your response here!
10/23	Mark, Neil, Dan	Project Overview + BlackParrot Deep Dive Project Overview BP Deep Dive
10/28	Tommy & Travis (PRNG=10)	Talk about your project! Two-week checkpoint due 11/11! Complexity-Effective Superscalar Processors Submit your response here!
10/30	Shashank, Sripathi	Talk about your project (part 2) & GPUs GPU Architecture Submit your response here! Some possibly useful links for your projects: Verilog Tutorial Verilog Reference Card LLVM for Grad Students (Adrian Sampson)
11/4	Alexi & Travis	GPUs and the Future of Parallel Computing Submit your response here!
11/6	Christine	The Evolution of Bitcoin Hardware (Required) Extreme Datacenter Specializationfor Planet-Scale Computing: ASIC Clouds (Optional) Submit your response here!
11/13	Matt & Chaitanya	Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling Submit your response here!
11/18	Sam & Tommy	Meltdown Spectre Submit your response here!
11/20	Gorkem	Programming languages and compiler design for realistic quantum hardware Submit your response here!
11/25	Sripathi	Diverse and robust molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly Submit your response here!
11/27	Alexey	Optimizing Pipelines for Power and Performance Dynamic Voltage Scaling Anatomy of an AI System (optional) Submit your response here!
12/2	Mark	Thoughts on the Future
12/4	All of you!	Final Project Presentations
12/11	All of you!	Final Reports Due at 12pm PDT! Submit a short paper (4-6 pages) that goes into more detail than your presentation Submit your final report here!