CPSC418: Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes

Jan.08 Course Overview
Jan.10 Architecture and Parallel Computation
Jan.12 Architecture and Parallel Computation
Jan.17 The HP PA-RISC
Jan.19 Caches
Jan.22 The MIPS R10000 Superscalar Microprocessor
Jan.24 Multiple Instruction Issue: The IBM RS/6000
Jan.26 note
Jan.31 note
Feb.02 note
Feb.05 Slide
Feb.09 note
Feb.12 Slide
Feb.14 Slide
Mar.09 note
Mar.19 note
Mar.21note
Mar.23 note
Mar.26 note
Mar.28 note
Mar.30 note

Course Outline

Background

: Overview of current issues: Jan. 8, 10, 15.
: RISC and Pipelining: Jan. 17, 22.
: Superscalars and Instruction Level Parallelism: Jan. 24, 29.
: Caches and Shared Memory: Jan. 31; Feb. 5, 7.
: Message Passing Machines: Feb. 12.
: Transistors and VLSI Technology: Feb. 14, 26.
: Midterm: Feb. 28.

Current Research

: Power: Mar. 5.
: Multithreading: Mar. 7.
: TBD: Mar. 14, 19.
: Chip Multiprocessors: Mar. 19, 21, 26.
: The Cell Processor: Mar. 28, Apr. 2.
: Energy and Algorithms: Apr. 4.
: Nanotubes: Apr. 9, 11.