EE482A Advanced Computer Organization:
| Meeting | Date | Topics | Assignments | Discussion Leader | Scribe |
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1
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29-Mar | Course organization, issues in high-performance processor architecture. | Scribes and discussion leaders assigned | Dally | |
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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 | |
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11
|
3-May | ILP execution | Checkpoint 1 | Ben Serebrin | Dean Liu |
|
12
|
8-May | Beyond ILP (I) - multithreading | Melvyn Lim | ||
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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 | ||
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16
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22-May | Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability | David Lie | John Maly | |
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17
|
24-May | Project presentations | |||
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Holiday
|
29-May | ||||
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18
|
31-May | Project presentations |