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Class Schedule

Week Date Topic Required Readings Optional Readings Lecture Notes Hand-outs Hand-ins
1 01/23 Introduction     2up 4up    
2 01/28 Introduction The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley   2up 4up    
01/30 Overview: Design Issues     2up 4up    
3 02/04 Parallel Programming I     2up 4up    
02/06 Parallel Programming II          
4 02/11 Shared Memory Multiprocessor I     2up 4up    
02/14 Shared Memory Multiprocessor I     2up 4up    
5 02/18 Guest speaker: Simulation Infrastructures (Venkat)       Project List  
02/20 Guest speaker: Simulation Infrastructures (Guojin)          
6 02/25 Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design I         Project Choices
02/27 Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design II       Project Assignments  
7 03/03 Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design III     2up 4up    
03/05 Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design IV          
8 03/10 Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design V          
03/12 Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design VI     2up 4up   Project Proposal
9 03/17 - 03/21 Spring break
10 03/24 Research Topic I Beckmann Kim 2up 4up    
03/26 Scalable Multiprocessors     2up 4up    
11 03/31 Directory-Based Cache Coherence I       Midterm Problem Set  
04/02 Directory-Based Cache Coherence II     2up 4up   Reading Summary I; Proposal Milestone
12 04/07 Midterm          
04/09 Directory-Based Cache Coherence III          
13 04/14 Directory-Based Cache Coherence IV     2up 4up    
04/16 Interconnection Network I          
14 04/21 Interconnection Network II     2up 4up    
04/23 Research Topic II On-Chip Interconnect        
15 04/28 Research Topic II (Cont. )          
04/30 Project Presentation     Port COBRA to SIMICS,

Dynamically adjust TLS performance

   
16 05/05 Project Presentation     Improve power simulation model in GEMS,

Improve power simulation model in GEMS

  Reading Summary II
05/07 Project Presentation     Parallelize data mining applications with TLS   Project Report
 
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