Week	Lecture	Day	Date	Due	Topic
1	1	Tues	Sep 04		Introduction #1 [ pdf, ppt ]
	2	Thurs	Sep 06	Sign up for Introductory Teleconference	Introduction #2 [ pdf, ppt ]
2	3	Tues	Sep 11		Pipelining [ pdf, ppt ]
		Wed	Sep 12	Introductory Teleconference
	4	Thurs	Sep 13		Memory Hierarchy [ pdf, ppt ]
3	5	Tues	Sep 18	Reading #1 Due	Projects & Quiz [ pdf, ppt ]
	6	Thurs	Sep 20		Class discussion of IBM360 vs B5000, RISC vs CISC
4	7	Tues	Sep 25	Reading #2 Due HW #1 Due	Instruction Level Parallelism [ pdf, ppt ]
	8	Thurs	Sep 27		Instruction Level Parallelism 2 [ pdf, ppt ] Class discussion on "Limits of instruction-level parallelism"
5	9	Tues	Oct 02	Reading #3 Due	Limits to Instruction Level Parallelism [ pdf, ppt ]
	10	Thurs	Oct 04		Simultaneous Multithreading [ pdf, ppt ] Class discussion on "Simultaneous Multithreading: A Platform for Next Generation Processors"
6	11	Tues	Oct 09	Reading #4 Due HW #2 Due	Vector Computers
	12	Thurs	Oct 11	Sign up for Conference Call	Vector Wrap-Up + Multiprocessor Intro [ pdf, ppt ] Class discussion on "The Cray-1 Computer System" by R.M. Russell
7	13	Tues	Oct 16	Reading #5 due	Snooping Cache and Directory Based Multiprocs [ pdf, ppt ]
		Wed	Oct 17	Conference Call -- Midterm Review
		Thurs	Oct 18		NO LECTURE
8		Mon	Oct 22	MIDTERM distributed to exam proctors
		Tues	Oct 23		NO LECTURE
		Thurs	Oct 25		NO LECTURE
		Fri	Oct 26	MIDTERM DUE
9	14	Tues	Oct 30		Directory Based Multiprocessors [ pdf, ppt ]
	15	Thurs	Nov 01		T1 (Niagara) [ pdf, ppt ]
10	16	Tues	Nov 06	Reading #6 Due HW #3 Due	MP Future Directions + Midterm Review [ pdf, ppt ]
	17	Thurs	Nov 08		Advanced Memory Hierarchy [ pdf, ppt ]
11	18	Tues	Nov 13	Reading #7 Due	Advanced Memory Hierarchy 2 [ pdf, ppt ] Class discussion on "Virtual Machine Monitors: Current Technology and Future Trends" by Mendel Rosenblum and Tal Garfinkel
	19	Thurs	Nov 15		UltraSPARC T1: A 32-threaded CMP for Servers [ pdf ]
12	20	Tues	Nov 20	HW #4 Due	Storage [ pdf, ppt ]
		Thurs	Nov 22		NO LECTURE -- Thanksgiving Holiday
13	21	Tues	Nov 27		Storage 2 [ pdf, ppt ] Class discussion on "A Case for RAID" by David Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy Katz
	22	Thurs	Nov 29	Sign up for Conference Call	Bad Career / Bad Talk Advice [ pdf, ppt ]
14	23	Tues	Dec 04	HW #5 Due	End of course summary [ pdf ]
		Wed	Dec 05	Conference Call -- Final Review
		Thurs	Dec 06
15		Mon	Dec 10	FINAL EXAM distributed to exam proctors
		Fri	Dec 14	FINAL EXAM DUE