For four of the major topics in the class, we will devote one lecture
to student-run discussions of several recent papers. Here are guidelines for leading discussion.

I will provide handouts containing these papers.

ILP -- Feb 19

"Supserspeculative Microarchtiecture for Bayond AD2000" Lipasti and Shen IEEE Computer September 1997
1) Jeff Napper
2) Jacob Sarvela
3) Douglas Greiman

"One Billion Transistors, One Uniprocessor, One Chip" Patt, Patel, Friendly, and Startk IEEE Computer September 1997
1) Praveen Yalagandula
2) Padmini Gopalakrishaan
3) Abhijit Jas
 
 

Memory Systems -- March 5

"Limited Bandwidth to Affect Processor Design" Burger, Goodman, Kagi IEEE Micro November/December 1997
1) Francois Caen
2) Brian Scott
3) Suresh Warrier


"Memory System Characterization of Commercial Workloads" Barroso, Gharachorloo, Bugnion ISCA98 1998
1) Xing Jin
2) Rui Wang
3)
 
 

I/O -- April 2

"A Cost-Effective, High-Bandwidth Storage Architecture" Gibson, et al ASPLOS98
1) Guijuan Qiao
2) Xiaoping Tang
3) Feng Shi

"Active Storage for Large-scale data mining and multimedia" Riedel, Gibson, Faloutsos VLDB98
1) Jiafu Gao
2) Yang Zhang
3) Vaibhav Agrawal
 

Parallel architectures -- April 16

"Starfire: Extending the SMP Envelope" Charlesworth IEEE Micro Jan/Feb 1998
1) Kamalnayan Jayaraman
2) Srikanth Kaanan
3) Jishwanath Sankaranarayanan


"A Methodology and an Evaluation of the SGI Origin2000" Jiang and Singh SIGMETRICS 1998
1) Xiaozhou Li
2) Qianmin Yi
3) Naga Wiojaja