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CS 885 : Future Multicore Architectures and their
Software
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Tentative Lecture Schedule
| Week |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Slides |
May 9-16
Multicore Framework |
Course Introduction
Read: Sutter
and Larus [Queue '05]
Review: Hill and Marty Computer '08
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Performance Counters (Guest Lecture : Linda)
Reference: Perfmon Reference |
Multicore architecture
Performance counters
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May 23
Caches, Coherence and Consistency |
Review: Cache design ( H and P Chapter
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Read:
Jouppi Cache ,
Goodman coherence ,
Wiki
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Reference: Adve and Gharacharloo,
Read: Adve and Boehm, CACM 8/2010
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Caches and Coherence
Consistency
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May 30
Threads and Synchronization |
Reference: PLP book 8.6 and 12.2 ,
Read: LLNL Tutorial
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Review: Mellor-Crummey&Scott TOCS91
Reference:
PARSEC Apps.
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Synchronization
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| Assignment 1 : Due June 17th |
Website | <
June 6
No classes (ISCA) |
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June 13
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Review: Hillis & Steele, CACM'96
skim LLNL OpenMP Tutorial
Review:
Cilk ,
Cilk Internals
Reference:
Cilk webpage
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Memory Consistency
Intel's TBB
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OpenMP
CILK
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| Assignment 2 : Due July 7th |
Website | <
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June 20th
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Parallelism (Linda, Nigel, Xiao Cao)
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June 27th
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Caches (Rajab, Ali Reza, Snehashish)
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July 4th
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Energy Efficient Processors (Arrvindh)
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Student-Led Classes |
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Parallelism
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Linda, Nigel, Xiao Cao
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Cache Coherence/Caches
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Rajab, Ali Reza, Snehasish
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Energy Efficient Processors
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Arrvindh
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GPUs
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Mike, Mark, and Shahrzad
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Gaming Processors
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Jay Kulkarni, Ankit Gupta and Scott
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Mobile Devices
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Evgeny, Adrian, Zachary
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