Instructor

Kevin Skadron
Office: 215 Olsson Hall
Office hours: after class or by appt.
Phone: x2-2042
skadron@cs

TAs

Announcements

• In general, you are expected to keep the time slot from 12:30-1:30 on Wednesdays available for recitations and make-up classes in MEC 214.
• You will need an up-to-date version of Acrobat Reader to read this page's PDF files.

Handouts & Slides

• Beginning-of-Course Memo
• Textbook errata
• Lecture notes
• Protected materials
• SimpleScalar "hack guide" (PDF)

Assignments

• First programming exercise (SimpleScalar & written), due Wednesday, 9/3 at 9:30 am (PDF)
• Second programming exercise (pipelining phase one) -- another extension due to the hurricane! -- due Monday, 9/22, at 9:30 am (PDF)
• we will have a Q&A session Weds, 9/10, 12:30-1:30 pm, in MEC 214
• slides from previous year's recitation (PPT)
• Extra credit: problems A.1 (a-b), A.3, A. 11 -- extension due to the hurricane -- due Monday, 9/22, at 9:30 am
• Third programming exercise (pipelining phase two): extended to Friday, 10/10 (PDF)
• Fourth exercise (programming and written parts pertaining to Ch. 3): Experimental part 1 is due Wednesday, 11/19 at 12:30pm; the rest of the assignment is due Friday, 11/14 at 4:30pm (PDF)
• Fifth exercise (written problems from H&P): 4.3, 4.8, 4.13 (please refer to 4.12 first), 4.18, 4.19a-b, due Wednesday, 11/26, at 4:30pm
• Final exercise(written problems from H&P): 6.1, 6.5, 6.12a-c, 6.28, 6.32, due Friday, 12/5, at 4:30pm

Reading Guides, FAQs, and other links

• Class e-mail log
• Protected materials
• Anonymous feedback

Course Schedule

 

Th	8/28	First lecture: introduction, measurement, ISA, trends, etc.
Tu	9/2	Measurement, ISA
Th	9/4	Pipelining
Tu	9/9	Pipelining, cont.
Th	9/11	Pipelining: wrap up basic material, consider pipeline "complications"
Tu	9/16	Pipelining with long-latency operations; caching
Th	9/18	Caching and VM
Tu	9/23	Caching and VM wrap-up
Th	9/25	Caching and VM wrap-up
Tu	9/30	no class
Th	10/2	no class
Tu	10/7	Branch prediction
Th	10/9	Finish caching and VM, hand out midterm exam
Tu	10/14	no class - reading holiday
Th	10/16	Superscalar organization and intro to out-of-order execution (OOE)
Tu	10/21	More OOE and MIPS R10k example
We	10/22	make-up-class: more OOE, detailed example of renaming/phys. regs.
Th	10/23	More OOE, finish previous example, begin discussion of ROB
Tu	10/28	More OOE, detailed ROB example, discuss Sima article
Th	10/30	More OOE - compare and contrast ROB and MRF
Tu	11/4	Finish OOE, start static scheduling (Ch. 4), examples of scheduling
Th	11/6	no class - pleae read ahead in Ch. 4
Tu	11/11	Loop unrolling (examples)
We	11/12	Loop-carried dependences (notes and examples)
Th	11/12	Global code scheduling and predication (notes and examples)
Tu	11/18	Finish Ch. 4: VLIW and EPIC.  Then start Ch. 6
We	11/19	Coherence
Th	11/20	Coherence protocols, start on consistency
Tu	11/25	Ch. 6 wrap-up
Th	11/27	no class - Thanksgiving

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