| Course Schedule |
| Week |
Lect. |
Date |
Day |
Lecture |
Notes |
Due |
Chptr(s) |
| 1 |
1 |
1/18 |
Tue |
Review: Pipeline, Performance, Cache, Virtual Memory |
pdf
ppt |
Conference Call Sign-Up: You MUST call the Cal VIEW office at (510) 642-5776 to sign up for the MANDATORY introductory conf. call with Yujia on 1/25, 10:00 am PST. |
1 |
| |
2 |
1/20 |
Thu |
Review: Moore’s Law Cost |
pdf
ppt |
HW #0 DUE
Moore's Law reading
Introductory Conference Call: with Yujia at 1/25, 10:00 am PST. |
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| 2 |
3 |
1/25 |
Tue |
Caches and Memory systems (Kubi) |
pdf
ppt |
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5 |
| |
4 |
1/27 |
Thu |
Memory systems continued (Kubi) |
pdf
ppt |
Liptay Cache reading |
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| 3 |
5 |
2/1 |
Tue |
Storage: Disks, Tapes, RAID |
pdf
ppt |
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7 |
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2/2 |
Wed |
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HW #1 DUE |
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6 |
2/3 |
Thu |
Storage: Fault Terminology, Gray, Queuing Theory |
pdf
ppt |
Gray Turing reading |
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| 4 |
7 |
2/8 |
Tue |
Storage: Benchmarks, Examples |
pdf
ppt |
Hennessy Future reading |
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2/9 |
Tue |
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HW #2 DUE |
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8 |
2/10 |
Thu |
Networks: Definitions, Metrics, Media, Projects |
pdf
ppt |
|
8 |
| 5 |
9 |
2/15 |
Tue |
Networks : Protocols, Routing, Wireless |
pdf
ppt |
Amdahl's Law reading |
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2/16 |
Wed |
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HW #3 DUE |
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| |
10 |
2/17 |
Thu |
Networks: Clusters, Google, Cell Phone |
pdf
ppt |
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| 6 |
11 |
2/22 |
Tue |
Multiprocessors: motivation, classification, apps |
pdf
ppt |
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6 |
| |
12 |
2/24 |
Thu |
Multiprocessors: Snooping Protocol, Directory Protocol, Synchronization, Consistency |
pdf
ppt |
Flash v. Flash reading |
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| |
13 |
3/1 |
Tue |
Multiprocessors: Measurements, Crosscutting Issues, Examples, Fallacies & Pitfalls |
pdf
ppt |
Conference Call Sign Up: Please call the Cal VIEW office at (510) 642-5776 to sign up for the conf. call with Yujia on 3/3, 10:00 am PST. |
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| 7 |
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3/2 |
Wed |
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HW #4 DUE |
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3/3 |
Thu |
NO BROADCAST |
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Conference call: with Yujia to review for midterm on 3/3, 10:00 am PST |
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| 8 |
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3/7 |
Mon |
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MIDTERM Distributed |
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3/8 |
Tue |
NO BROADCAST |
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3/10 |
Thu |
NO BROADCAST |
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| 9 |
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3/14 |
Mon |
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MIDTERM DUE: must be postmarked by Mon, 3/14 |
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3/15 |
Tue |
NO BROADCAST |
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14 |
3/17 |
Thu |
Instruction Set: MIPS, DSP |
pdf
ppt |
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2 |
| |
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3/21-3/25 |
M-F |
SPRING BREAK - NO BROADCAST |
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| 10 |
15 |
3/29 |
Tue |
Instruction Set: Vector, Multimedia (Kozyrakis) |
pdf
ppt |
Cray 1 reading |
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| |
16 |
3/31 |
Thu |
Dynamic Pipeline: Tomasulo, Reorder Buffers |
pdf
ppt |
|
3 |
| 11 |
17 |
4/5 |
Tue |
Dynamic Pipeline: Branch prediction, ILP limits
| pdf
ppt |
Emergenetic branch reading |
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4/6 |
Wed |
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HW #5 DUE |
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| |
18 |
4/7 |
Thu |
Dynamic Wrapup: Examples and SMT |
pdf
ppt |
|
4 |
| 12 |
19 |
4/12 |
Tue |
Static Pipeline : VLIW, static branch prediction, IA-64 |
pdf
ppt |
VLIW reading |
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| |
20 |
4/14 |
Thu |
Static Pipeline Wrapup |
pdf
ppt |
Flynn reading |
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| 13 |
21 |
4/19 |
Tue |
How to Have a Bad Academic Career |
pdf
ppt |
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4/20 |
Wed |
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HW #6 DUE |
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4/21 |
Thu |
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Conference Call Sign-Up: Please call the Cal VIEW office at (510) 642-5776 to sign up for the conf. call with Yujia for final on 4/28, 10:00 am PST. |
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| 14 |
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4/26 |
Tue |
NO BROADCAST |
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4/27 |
Wed |
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HW #7 DUE |
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4/28 |
Thu |
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Conference Call: with Yujia to review for final on 4/28, 10:00 am Pacific Time PST. |
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| 15 |
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5/3 |
Tue |
NO BROADCAST |
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5/5 |
Thu |
NO BROADCAST |
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| 16 |
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5/9 |
Mon |
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FINAL EXAM DISTRIBUTED |
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| 17 |
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5/16 |
Mon |
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FINAL EXAM DUE: Must be postmarked by 5/16. |
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