15-740 Fall '00
Class Projects

Here are the class projects for 2000 (in no particular order):

Parallel Processing:

• Speculation in a Shared Cache. Andrew Faulring and Yan Karklin.
• Speculation and Cache Problems in STAMPede. Patrick Riley, Joseph Vanderwaart and Kevin Watkins.
• Improving the Performance of Distributed Shared Memory Systems. Francisco Pereira and Joao Pedro Sousa.
• Parallelizing the Cello Performance Simulator. Shawn Butler and Brigitte Pientka.
• Fast, Small Processor-to-Processor Queues in a Cache-Coherent Multiprocessor. Jingcao Hu and Michael Raymond.

Improving Memory Hierarchy Performance:

• Prefetching Set Hints. Brenda Liu and SoYoung Park.
• Fast Block Operations in DRAM. Ningning Hu and Jichuan Chang.

Predicting or Understanding Program Behavior:

• Understanding Program Predictability. Nikhil Bansal and Kedar Dhamdhere.
• Per-Branch History Length Fitting in Two-Level Branch Prediction. Hyang-Ah Kim and Sungwoo Park.
• Understanding the Behavior of Programs Written in Functional Languages. Alex Groce and Ioannis Koutis.
• Predicting Procedure Values. Christopher R. Palmer and Martin Zinkevich.

Evaluating Architectural Innovations:

• Performance Analysis of the Intel IXP1200 Network Processor. Rajesh Krishna Balan and Urs Hengartner.
• Configuration Swapping and Caching. Suman Kumar Nath and Suraj Sudhir.
• A SMT Approach to Increasing Performance in a Superscalar Architecture. Dan Bohus and Emil Talpes.