Architecture and Compilers Group Discussions

Spring 2007

In the Spring of 2007, the students and faculty of the Architecture and Compilers Group (ACG) met approximately every-other-week to discuss papers on simulation and experimental evaluation.

Participants

Schedule

Tuesday, January 23rd:
- GEMS - http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/can05_gems.pdf
- Full-System Timing-First Simulation - http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/sigmetrics02_tfsim.pdf
Tuesday, February 13th:
- IPC Considered Harmful for Multiprocessor Workloads: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/ieeemicro06_ipc.pdf
- Redeeming IPC: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~cain/pubs/pact2003_lepak.pdf
Tuesday, February 20th:
- SimPoint: http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/calder/papers/IEEE-MICRO-SSI.pdf
- SimFlex: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~simflex/publ/ieee-micro06.pdf
Tuesday, March 13th:
- ProtoFlex: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~simflex/publ/2007-02.pdf
- The Future of Simulation: a Field of Dreams? http://www.arctic.umn.edu/~jjyi/papers/computer2006.pdf
Tuesday, March 27th
- RAMP: http://ramp.eecs.berkeley.edu/Publications/ramp-nsf2005.pdf
- Additional reading: http://ramp.eecs.berkeley.edu/index.php?publications

Potential Future Topics

Simulation and Prototyping

ATLAS: A Chip-Multiprocessor with Transactional Memory Support: http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2007.atlas.date.pdf
Liberty: http://liberty.princeton.edu/Publications/tocs_lse.pdf - 40 pages
PinPoints: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~calder/papers/SIGMETRICS-06-PinSEL.pdf
PTLSim: http://www.ptlsim.org/papers/PTLsim-ISPASS-2007.pdf
Enhancing Multiprocessor Architecture Simulation Speed Using Matched-Pair Comparison - http://www.ce.chalmers.se/~mekman/ispass.pdf

Other Ideas

Some older papers: i432, HPSm, etc.
Technology-driven architecture: VLSI for architects, static and dynamic power, reliability, variability, die stacking
Three interesting lectures at: http://www.intel.com/education/highered/research/videolectures.htm
Map-Reduce on Multicore: http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2007.cmp_mapreduce.hpca.pdf