CS 5513 Fall 2007 Schedule

This schedule gives the dates, topics, readings, and assignments for CS 5513. Click on the topics for lecture notes. Note: These dates are tentative and subject to change. In particular, the dates and numbers of midterm exams may move readings may be shuffled, added, or deleted.
 
Week
Date
Topic
Readings for Next Time
Out
In
(Due)
1
 August 23 Discussion, Circuits, Goals. H&P Chapter 1, Appendix B HW1  
2
 August 28/30 ISAs, Compilers H&P Appendix B    
3
 September 4/6 Pipelining and ILP H&P Chapter 2, Appendix A HW2 HW1
4
 September 11/13 Control Hazards (No class Thursday) H&P Chapter 2 Proposal  
5
 September 18/20 Out-of-Order Execution H&P Chapter 2, Chapter 3 HW3 HW2
6
 September 25/27 Wide Issue and Speculation H&P Chapter 5, Appendix C   Proposal
7
 October 2/4 Caches H&P Chapter 5, study for midterm exam   HW3
8
 October 9/11 Midterm Exam, More Caches, Virtual Memory H&P Chapter 4    
9
 October 16/18 Parallel Computers H&P Chapter 4    
10
 October 23/25 Parallel Computers cont. H&P Chapter 6 HW4  
11
 October 30/November 1 Input/Output      
12
 November 6/8 Paper #4 (Mazor) Tuesday, #1 (Cuppu et al.) Thursday     HW4
13
 November 13/15 Paper #2 (Tendler et al.) Tuesday, #6 (Yeh et al.) Thursday      
14
 November 20/22 Paper #5 (Wall) Tuesday (Thursday is Thanksgiving so no class)      
15
 November 27/29 Paper #3 (Tullsen et al.) Tuesday, something else Thursday