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August 27 Introduction (Chapter 1) Lecture slides
August 29 Instruction set principles (Appendix A) ( lecture slides )
September 3 Review of Pipelining (Appendix C) ( lecture slides ) Homework 1 and solutions
September 5 Review of Pipelining (continued)
September 10 ILP: Instruction Level Parallelism (Chapter 3) ( lecture slides ) Homework 2 and solutions
September 12 Branch prediction ( lecture slides )
September 17 Dynamically scheduled pipeline ( lecture slides )
September 19 Tomasulo's algorithm and Hardware-based speculation ( lecture slides )
September 24 Multiple issue processors ( lecture slides ) Project 1
September 26 SMT and discussion of Project 1
October 1 Review of memory hierarchy (Appendix B) ( lecture slides )
October 3 Memory hierarchy
October 8 Advanced cache optimizations (Chapter 2) ( lecture slides )
October 10 Main Memory ( lecture slides )
October 15 Mid-term exam (example of a mid-term and solutions)
October 17 Chapter 5: Thread Level Parllelism ( lecture slides ) and review of exam
October 22 Cache coherence ( lecture slides ) Project 1 due
October 24 Directory-based coherence ( lecture slides )
October 29 MESI protocol and the basics of Synchronization ( lecture slides ) Project 2
October 31 Chapter 4: Data level parallelism ( lecture slides )
November 5 Data level parallelism
November 7 Introduction to Interconnection Networks ( lecture slides )
November 12 Interconnection Networks
November 14 Introduction to GPUs ( lecture slides )
November 19 Programming GPUs Project 2 due
November 21 More on GPUs
November 26 No class (Thanksgiving)
November 28 No class (Thanksgiving)
December 3 More on GPUs
December 5 Example Questions
December 10 Final exam


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