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August 24/26 | Introduction, Prerequisite Quiz | H&P Chapter 1, Appendix B | HW1: Intro | ||
August 29/31 | Cont. Introduction, Amdahl's Law, Performance , | H&P Appendix A | HW2: ISA | HW1 (Wednesday) | |
September 7 | Performance and Pipelining (no class Monday) | H&P Appendix C | |||
September 12/14 | Continue Pipelining, Examples | H&P Chapter 2 | HW2 | ||
September 19/21 | Memory Hierarchy Review | Bhattacharjee, Lustig, Martonosi paper from HPCA 2011 | Proposal, HW3:Pipelining | ||
September 26/28 | Memory Hierarchy | HW4: Cache | |||
October 3/5 | Instruction-Level Parallelism, Branch Prediction | Anderson, Fortuna, Ceze and Eggers paper from HPCA 2011 | HW3 (Wednesday) | ||
October 10/12 | First Exam (Wednesday) | HW4 (Monday) | |||
October 17/19 | continue ILP, Branch Prediction Example | Proposal (Wednesday) | |||
October 24/26 | Selected Topics | ||||
October 31 / November 2 | Dynamic Scheduling, More on ILP; no class Wednesday | HW5: Dynamic Scheduling | |||
November 7/9 | Wide-Issue, Speculation | H&P Chapter 4 | |||
November 14/16 | Parallel | Seznec paper | |||
November 21/23 | More Parallel | Tseng paper, Chen paper, Zhang paper | HW5 | November 28/30 | Selected Topics | December 5/7 | Selected Topics, Second Exam (Wednesday) | December 14 | Final Projects Due | Project |