CS2410 - Computer Architecture (Fall 2011)

Welcome to the (simple) web page of CS2410 - Computer Architecture, Fall 2011!

• Course introduction
• Course schedule

Week of December 5

• Slides #9: Power and energy (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)

Week of November 14

• Slides #8: PCM (phase change memory) (pptx)
• Final assignment (pdf): NOTE: 1-page proposal is due 11/22.
• Assignment #4 (pdf), posted 11/16, due 11/29; Paper #1 Mutlu and Moscibroda; Paper #2 Ahn et al.; and Paper #3 Isen and John.

Week of October 24

• Slides #6: L2 cache design (cloudcache) (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)
• Slides #7: Storage systems (hard disk drives) (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)
• Assignment #3 (pdf), posted 10/26, due 11/7; Paper #1 Jouppi; Paper #2 Jin and Cho

Week of October 10

• Slides #5: L1 cache design (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)
• Programming Assignment #1 (pdf), posted 10/11, due 10/24.

Week of September 26

• Slides #3: Instruction level parallelism (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)
• Slides #4: Pipelining refresher (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)
• Assignment #2 (pdf), posted 9/26, due 10/5; Paper #1 McFarling; Paper #2 Smith and Pleszkun

Week of September 12

• Slides #3: Instruction set architecture principles and examples (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)
• We will have a special departmental colloquium by Chris Malachowsky on Friday September 23. Chris co-founded nVIDIA and is the senior VP of research there.

Week of September 5

• Assignment #1 (pdf), posted 9/7, due 9/19; Paper #1 Ronen et al.; Paper #2 Freitas and Wilcke

Week of August 29

• Slides #1: Course intro & technology trends (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)
• Slides #2: Principles of computer architecture & design (2-up pdf, 4-up pdf)