CIS 501 Fall 2003 Class Schedule

This table contains the tentative class schedule. Lecture notes and readings are divided by topic, not by class period. For instance, we will spend the first two class periods discussing performance measurement and cost.  The lecture notes and readings correspond to both class periods.
 
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Class# / Date Topic Lecture Notes Readings Homework
1. 9/4 (R)  Performance and Cost  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Chapter 1
 Moore "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits"
 Gottbrath et.al. "The effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations"		  
2. 9/9 (T)  
3. 9/11 (R)  Instruction Sets  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Chapter 2
 H&P: Appendix C (RISC architectures) (for reference)
 H&P: Appendix D (X86) (for reference)
 Patterson & Ditzel, "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer"
 Colwell et.al.,  "Instruction  Sets and Beyond: Computers, Complexity and Controversy"		  
4. 9/16 (T) Homework 1, Solutions
5. 9/18 (R)  Caches  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Chapter 5 (5.1-5.7)
 Jouppi, "Improving Direct Mapped Cache Performance..."		  
6. 9/23 (T)  
7. 9/25 (R)  Main Memory  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Chapter 5 (5.8-5.13)  
8. 9/30 (T) Homework 2, Solutions
9. 10/2 (R)  Disks and I/O  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Chapter 7
 Patterson et. al. "The Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)"		  
10. 10/7 (T)  Basic Pipelining  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Appendix A  
11. 10/9 (R)  
12. 10/16 (R) Homework 3, Solutions
13. 10/21 (T)  Multiple Issue
 and Static Scheduling		  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Chapter 4  
14. 10/23 (R)  
15. 10/28 (T)  Project Description  PDF, PS4     
16. 10/30 (R)  Midterm    2001 mid-term and solutions (PDF)
 2002 mid-term and solutions (PDF)
 2003 mid-term and solutions (PDF) 		 
17. 11/4 (T)  Out-of-order execution I  PDF,  PS4    
18. 11/6 (R)  
19. 11/11 (T)  Out-of-order execution II  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Chapter 3.8-3.9   
20. 11/13 (R) Homework 4
21. 11/18 (T) Homework 4, Solutions
22. 11/20 (R)  Vectors  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Appendix G (PDF)  
23. 11/25 (T)  Class Canceled      
24. 12/2 (T)  Multiprocessors
 and Multithreading		  PDF,  PS4  H&P: Chapter 6.1-6.4, 6.7-6.9   
25. 12/4 (T)  
26. 12/5 (F)  Low-Power Processors  PDF,  PS4    
27. 12/12 (F)  Final (11-1)    2001 final and solutions (PDF)
 2002 final and solutions (PDF)
 2003 final and solutions (PDF)		  
28. 12/15 (M)  Alternate Final (11-1)