NOTE: The Thursdays meetings will be from 4:00 to 6:15
August 30 Introduction to Parallel Computing
September 6 Introduction to Parallel Computing
September 13 Introduction to Fault tolerant Systems
September 20 Inroduction to Power management and Optical interconnections
September 27 TRIPS (Mohammad, Dan, Sherif)
October 4 RAW (Michel, Shuyi, Joshua, swapna, Marius)
Thursday Oct. 13 (replaces Oct. 11) Cell (Ruibin, Sherif, Mohammad, Jonathan) and ILDP (Marius)
October 18 Blue Gene (Shuyi, Joshua, Michel, Swapna) paper 1 , paper 2 , paper 3 , paper 4
October 25 Dan ( Blue Gene ), Jonathan ( An associative architecture ) Ruibin ( pipelined heap ), Mohammad ( Production systems ), Marius ( The Kestrel MP )
Thursday Oct. 27 (replaces Nov. 1) Sherif ( FT routing ), Swapna ( The memory wall ), Shuyi ( Organizing arrays on CMP ), Joshua ( The Quadrics switch )
project proposals due
November 8 Michel ( Deadlock-free routing ), Dan ( MPI over infiniband ), Jonathan ( sorting on CAM ), Ruibin ( transactional memories ), Mohammad ( scalable priority queues )
November 17 (replaces Nov. 15) Marius ( Opto-electronic networks ), Sherif ( Fault recovery in CMP ), Swapna ( CMP communication ), Shuyi ( Optical interconnections )
November 22 Joshua ( Intelligent machine ), Michel ( fair cache sharing ), Dan (Unbounded Transactional memory), Jonathan ( Reconfigurable caches ), Ruibin ( synchroscaler )
November 29 Mohammad ( Victim replication), Marius ( Cache compression), Michel ( Coarse grain coherence), Swapna ( Interconnection of multi-cores ), Shuyi ( reconfigurable computing ),
December 6 Joshua ( RHiNET-3/SW ), Sherif ( CMP cache management ), Jonathan ( Reconfigurable memory ), Ruibin ( on-chip interconnect )
Thursday December 15 Presentations of final projects (20 minutes each) - final written reports due.
December 14/16 Individual meetings (30 minutes per project) to talk about the results. Please contact bunny@cs.pitt.edu for a slot.
Monday January 16 5:25PM Make up session for project presentations

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