The Architecture and Compilers Reading Group provides interested CIS graduate students an opportunity to read and discuss recent research in the field. All Penn students are welcome to subscribe to our mailing list, attend, suggest readings, and participate in the weekly discussions.

Weekly Meetings: Thursdays, 12:00, Levine 612

Next Meeting:
July 5 / Anne / Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution

• Area-Performance Trade-offs in Tiled Dataflow Architectures
• Memory Model = Instruction Reordering + Store Atomicity
• Interconnect-Aware Coherence Protocols for Chip Multiprocessors

Please send suggestions and opinions to Tingting Sha.

Decide on the paper by Monday at the latest (for Thursday meetings), update this webpage so that it is current, then email the group list with paper name and link.

Usually, a good starting point for discussion is what problem the authors were trying to solve and how they propose to solve it. From there, have some specific discussion points in case discussion flags. There shouldn't be a need for much summary; everyone should have read the paper and will ask if they are confused about something.

Read the paper. Try to give at least an hour to it, if not more; we are planning on reading papers that are worth spending time on. Think about the following questions: What problem are the authors trying to solve? How do they propose to solve it? Also note anything you are confused by, disagree with, or have some comment on, and bring it up in discussion.