CS 5513 Fall 2009 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. Dates for homeworks might appear to be in a state of flux until they are assigned.

Fall 2009 Schedule
Week
Date
Topic
Readings for Next Time
Out
In
(Due)
1
 August 27 Introduction, Prerequisite Quiz H&P Chapter 1, Appendix B HW1: Intro  
2
 September 1/3 Note: no class on Tuesday, Cont. Introduction, Amdahl's Law, Performance H&P Appendix A HW2: ISA  
3
 September 8/10 Performance and Pipelining H&P Appendix C, Moore's Law paper   HW1
4
 September 15/17 Continue Pipelining, Examples H&P Chapter 2 Proposal, HW3:Pipelining HW2
5
 September 22/24 Memory Hierarchy Review      
6
 September 29/October 1 continue Memory Hierarchy Review   HW4: Cache HW3
7
 October 6/8 Instruction-Level Parallelism, Branch Prediction Wall's ILP paper    
8
 October 13/15 continue ILP, Branch Prediction Example     Proposal, HW4-I
9
 October 20/22 Midterm on Thursday the 22nd     HW4-II
10
 October 27/29 SBAC-PAD (Prof. Jiménez is away)      
11
 November 3/5 Dynamic Scheduling, More on ILP Smith's ROB paper    
12
 November 10/12 Wide-Issue, Speculation H&P Chapter 4 HW5: Scheduling  
13
 November 17/19 Selected Topics, Parallel      
14
 November 24/26 More Parallel (Thursday is Thanksgiving so no class)     HW5
15
 December 1/3 Second Exam on Tuesday      
  December 15 Project is Due; email your PDF file to the professor     Project

There will be no final examination in this class.