15-418: Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
Spring 2008 Schedule

  

Table 1: 15-418, Spring 2008.

Class	Date	Day	Topic	Reading	Assignments
1	1/15	Tue	Why Study Parallel Architecture?	1.1
2	1/16	Wed	Evolution of Parallel Architecture	1.2
3	1/17	Thu	Fundamental Design Issues	1.3-4
4	1/22	Tue	Parallel Programming: Overview I	2.1-2
5	1/23	Wed	Parallel Programming: Overview II	2.3-4
6	1/24	Thu	Parallel Programming: Performance I	3.1
7	1/29	Tue	Parallel Programming: Performance II	3.2	L1 Out
8	1/30	Wed	Parallel Programming: Performance III	3.3-4
9	1/31	Thu	Par. Prog: Case Studies & Implications	3.5-6
10	2/5	Tue	Workload-Driven Arch Evaluation I	4.1
	2/6	Wed	No Class
11	2/7	Thu	Workload-Driven Arch Evaluation II	4.2-3	L1 Due, L2 Out
12	2/12	Tue	Shared Memory Multiprocessors I	5.1
13	2/13	Wed	Shared Memory Multiprocessors II	5.3
14	2/14	Thu	Earthquake Simulation Case Study
15	2/19	Tue	Shared Memory Multiprocessors III	5.4
16	2/20	Wed	Directory-Based Cache Coherence I	8.1-5
17	2/21	Thu	Directory-Based Cache Coherence II	8.6-7, 8.9-11	L2 Due
	2/26	Tue	Exam I		L3 Out
18	2/27	Wed	Relaxed Memory Consistency Models	9.1
19	2/28	Thu	Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design I	6.1
20	3/4	Tue	Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design II	6.2
21	3/5	Wed	Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design III	6.3-4
22	3/6	Thu	Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design IV	6.5, 6.7	L3 Due
Spring Break
23	3/18	Tue	Synchronization	5.5., 7.9, 8.8
	3/19	Wed	Meet regarding Project Proposals
24	3/20	Thu	Scalable Distributed Memory MPs I	7.1-3	Project Proposal
25	3/25	Tue	Scalable Distributed Memory MPs II	7.4-8
26	3/26	Wed	Interconnection Network Design	10.1-10
27	3/27	Thu	Latency Tolerance: Prefetching	11.1, 11.6
28	4/1	Tue	Latency Tolerance: Multithreading	11.7-9
	4/3	Thu	Meet regarding Milestone 1 Progress		Project Milestone 1
	4/15	Tue	Exam II
	4/16	Wed	Meet regarding Milestone 2 Progress		Project Milestone 2
	4/30	Wed			Project Report Due
	5/1	Thu	Project Poster Session

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