EE482A Advanced Computer Organization:

Processor Architecture - Spring 1999/2000

 

Class Schedule



 
 
 
 
Meeting Date Topics Assignments Discussion Leader Scribe
1
29-Mar Course organization, issues in high-performance processor architecture Scribes and discussion leaders assigned  Dally  
2
3-Apr The setting: technology, market trends, critical issues.   Dally  Mattan Erez
3
5-Apr Branch Prediction Pseudo DARPA proposal assigned Mattan Erez Mahesh Madhav
4
10-Apr Fetch issues   Jin Namkoong Paul Wang Lee
5
12-Apr Trace Cache Paul Wang Lee Ben Serebrin
6
17-Apr Predication and 
eager execution
  Dean Liu David Lie
7
19-Apr Memory systems and memory latency Pseudo DARPA proposal due
Project assigned
Brian Towles Shuaib Arshad
8
24-Apr Memory prefetching   Shuaib Arshad Ayodele Embry
9
26-Apr Memory disambiguation and speculation   Ayodele Embry Brian Towles
10
1-May Value prediction   Mahesh Madhav Anamaya Sullerey
11
3-May ILP execution Checkpoint 1 Ben Serebrin Dean Liu
12
8-May Beyond ILP (I) - multithreading   Melvyn Lim
13
10-May Beyond ILP (II) - 
SMT and variants
Checkpoint 2 Anamaya Sullerey
14
15-May Vectors and streams   Melvyn Lim  Jin Namkoong
15
17-May Low-power design   John Maly
16
22-May Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability   David Lie John Maly
17
24-May Project presentations      
Holiday
29-May        
18
31-May Project presentations