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1/13
Intro / Open Discussion
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1/18
MLK No Class
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1/20
Evaluation Methods and Tools (Richy)
Simics: A Full System Simulation Platform (Peter S. Magnusson, Magnus Christensson, Jesper Eskilson, Daniel Forsgren, Gustav Hållberg, Johan Högberg, Fredrik Larsson, Andreas Moestedt, Bengt Werner), In Computer, IEEE Computer Society Press, volume 35, 2002.
Sniper: Exploring the Level of Abstraction for Scalable and Accurate Parallel Multi-core Simulation (Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman, Lieven Eeckhout), In Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, ACM, 2011.
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1/25
Microarchitecture (Xavier)
Executing a Program on the MIT Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture (K. Arvind, Rishiyur S. Nikhil), In IEEE Trans. Comput., IEEE Computer Society, volume 39, 1990.
A Design Space Evaluation of Grid Processor Architectures (Ramadass Nagarajan, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler), In Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture, IEEE Computer Society, 2001.
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1/27
Microarchitecture (Sean)
Continual Flow Pipelines (Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Ravi Rajwar, Haitham Akkary, Amit Gandhi, Mike Upton), In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, 2004.
Long Term Parking (LTP): Criticality-aware Resource Allocation in OOO Processors (Andreas Sembrant, Trevor Carlson, Erik Hagersten, David Black-Shaffer, Arthur Perais, André Seznec, Pierre Michaud), In International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Micro 2015, ACM, 2015.
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2/1
Guest Lecture: Lars Nyland (NVIDIA)
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2/3
Interconnection Networks (Michael)
Virtual-channel Flow Control (William J. Dally), In Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ACM, 1990.
Low-cost Router Microarchitecture for On-chip Networks (John Kim), In Proceedings of the 42Nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, ACM, 2009.
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2/8
Interconnection Networks (Xiangyu)
Cost-Efficient Dragonfly Topology for Large-Scale Systems (John Kim, William Dally, Steve Scott, Dennis Abts), In IEEE Micro, IEEE Computer Society Press, volume 29, 2009.
Research Challenges for On-Chip Interconnection Networks (J.D. Owens, W.J. Dally, R. Ho, D.N. Jayasimha, S.W. Keckler, Li-Shiuan Peh), In Micro, IEEE, volume 27, 2007.
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2/10
Synchronization (Ramin)
Efficient Synchronization: Let Them Eat QOLB (Alain Kägi, Doug Burger, James R. Goodman), In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ACM, 1997.
Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution (Ravi Rajwar, James R. Goodman), In Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture, IEEE Computer Society, 2001.
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2/15
Parallel Memory Systems (Hive Mind)
Synchronization and Communication in the T3E Multiprocessor (Steven L. Scott), In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, 1996.
Exploiting Commutativity to Reduce the Cost of Updates to Shared Data in Cache-Coherent Systems (Guowei Zhang, Webb Horn, Daniel Sanchez), In Proceedings of the 48th annual IEEE/ACM international symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-48), 2015.
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2/17
Parallel Memory Systems (Pulkit)
DeNovo: Rethinking the Memory Hierarchy for Disciplined Parallelism (Byn Choi, R. Komuravelli, Hyojin Sung, R. Smolinski, N. Honarmand, S.V. Adve, V.S. Adve, N.P. Carter, Ching-Tsun Chou), In Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2011 International Conference on, 2011.
Transactional Lock-free Execution of Lock-based Programs (Ravi Rajwar, James R. Goodman), In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, 2002.
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2/22
I/O Interfaces (Bryan)
The Virtual Interface Architecture (D. Dunning, G. Regnier, G. McAlpine, D. Cameron, B. Shubert, F. Berry, A.M. Merritt, E. Gronke, C. Dodd), In Micro, IEEE, volume 18, 1998.
Making network interfaces less peripheral (S.S. Mukherjee, M.D. Hill), In Computer, volume 31, 1998.
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2/24
I/O & Systems (Alfredo)
rIOMMU: Efficient IOMMU for I/O Devices That Employ Ring Buffers (Moshe Malka, Nadav Amit, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Dan Tsafrir), In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, 2015.
FaRM: Fast Remote Memory (Aleksandar Dragojevi\'c, Dushyanth Narayanan, Miguel Castro, Orion Hodson), In 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 14), USENIX Association, 2014.
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2/29
Review / Disucssion
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3/2
Midterm Exam
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3/7
Guest Lecture: Lisa Hsu (Qualcomm) postponed
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3/9
FLASH/NVM (George)
SDF: Software-defined Flash for Web-scale Internet Storage Systems (Jian Ouyang, Shiding Lin, Song Jiang, Zhenyu Hou, Yong Wang, Yuanzheng Wang), In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, 2014.
Mojim: A Reliable and Highly-Available Non-Volatile Memory System (Yiying Zhang, Jian Yang, Amirsaman Memaripour, Steven Swanson), In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, 2015.
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| Spring Break! |
3/21
Virtualization (Richy, Xavier)
Intel virtualization technology (R. Uhlig, G. Neiger, D. Rodgers, A.L. Santoni, F.C.M. Martins, A.V. Anderson, S.M. Bennett, A. Kagi, F.H. Leung, L. Smith), In Computer, volume 38, 2005.
Large Pages and Lightweight Memory Management in Virtualized Environments: Can You Have it Both Ways? (Binh Pham, Jan Vesely, Gabriel Loh, Abhishek Bhattacharjee), In Proceedings of the 48th International Symposum on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2015.
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3/23
Security (George, Michael)
Shielding Applications from an Untrusted Cloud with Haven (Andrew Baumann, Marcus Peinado, Galen Hunt), In 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 14), USENIX Association, 2014.
A Hardware Design Language for Timing-Sensitive Information-Flow Security (Danfeng Zhang, Yao Wang, G. Edward Suh, Andrew C. Myers), In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, 2015.
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3/28
Energy Efficiency (Xiangyu, Ramin)
More is Less: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Data Movement via Opportunistic Use of Sparse Codes (Yanwei Song, Engin Ipe), In Proceedings of the 48th International Symposum on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2015.
Flexible Auto-refresh: Enabling Scalable and Energy-efficient DRAM Refresh Reductions (Ishwar Bhati, Zeshan Chishti, Shih-Lien Lu, Bruce Jacob), In Proceedings of the 42Nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ACM, 2015.
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3/30
Specialization (Sean, Pulkit)
Implications of Makimoto's Wave (T. Makimoto), In Computer, volume 46, 2013.
Single-Chip Heterogeneous Computing: Does the Future Include Custom Logic, FPGAs, and GPGPUs? (Eric S. Chung, Peter A. Milder, James C. Hoe, Ken Mai), In Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, IEEE Computer Society, 2010.
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4/4
Guest Lecture: Lisa Hsu (Qualcomm)
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4/6
Guest Lecture: Brian Towles (DE Shaw)
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4/11
No class: Project Work Day
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4/13
No class: Project Work Day
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4/18
Project Presentations (Sean; Pulkit; George, Alfredo)
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4/20
Project Presentations (Mike, Ramin; Bryan; Richy, Xavier, Michael)
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Final Report Due: Wed April 27, 5pm
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