Meeting Place: MWF 2-3, WEL 2.304
Instructor: Mike Dahlin
Office Hours: MW 3-4 or by appointment, TAY 4.136
TA: Jing Jane Zhao (jingzhao@cs.utexas.edu)
TA Office Hours: TTH 12:50-1:50 PAI 5.48
Errata Sheet
for Hennessy & Patterson
Some printers have problems with the H&P errata. Qing Zhu got it
to print. Here's how.
30% Homework (Work in pairs)
30% Exams (2 midterms)
30% Project (Work in pairs)
| Week | Date | Topic | Lecture | Reading | Due |
| 1 | Jan 19 | Intro, Admin, Review: Perf/Cost, Amdahl's Law, Tech Trends | 1 2 | Ch 1,2 | |
| 2 | Jan 26 | Caching and Memory, ISAs, Pipelining, Hazards and Branch Prediction | 3 4 5 | Ch 3 | W: Project interests F: HW 1 |
| 3 | Feb 2 | Pipelining, Hazards, and Static Branch Prediction | 6 7a 7b 8a 8b | Ch 4 | F: Project Topic |
| 4 | Feb 9 | ILP: Scoreboarding, Tomasulu, Speculation | 9a 9b 10 11 11b | F: HW2 part 1 | |
| 5 | Feb 16 | ILP: Dynamic Prediction, Limits of ILP, Vector Processors | 12 13 | Ch B | F: HW2 part 2 |
| 6 | Feb 23 | Memory Hierarchy | 14 15 16 | Ch 5 | F: Project Proposal |
| 7 | Mar 2 | Memory DRAM, VM, and Banks | 17 18 | F: HW3 | |
| 8 | Mar 9 | Memory and Review | W: Midterm 1
6-9pm Tay 3.144 |
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| Mar 16 | Spring Break | M-F: Spring Break | |||
| 9 | Mar 23 | I/O: Metrics, Queuing, Busses, Disks, RAID | 22 23 | Ch 6 | |
| 10 | Mar 30 | I/O: Tertiary, Networks | 25 26 27 | F: HW4 | |
| 11 | Apr 6 | Networks | 28 pdf 29 pdf 30 pdf | Ch 7 | F: Project Checkpoint |
| 12 | Apr 13 | Networks, Parallel Architectures | 31 pdf 32 pdf 33 pdf | Fri: HW5 | |
| 13 | Apr 20 | MPPs | 34 pdf 36 pdf 37 pdf | Ch 8 | |
| 14 | Apr 27 | MPPs, Review | W: Midterm 2
6-9pm TAY 3.144 |
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| 15 | May 4 | Project Presentations | M/W/F: Project Presentations
Fri: Last Day of Classes |
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| M: Written Project Report |
Project presentation guidelines.
Important deadlines