15-740 Fall '01
Class Projects

Here are the class projects for 2001 (in no particular order):

Prediction Mechanisms:

• Improving Branch Prediction with Prelearned Classifiers. Kaustav Chaudhuri and Doug Vail.
• Branch Prediction in Software. Mukesh Agrawal and Maverick Woo.
• Value Prediction and Instruction Reuse for Loads and Stores. Luis von Ahn, Anton Likhodedov, and Bartosz Przydatek.

Memory Hierarchy Performance:

• Performance of AlphaSort on Modern Processors. Aditya Akella and Jia-Yu Pan.
• User Assigned Cache Priorities. Muralidhar Talupu and Michael Ferdman.
• Software Supported Memory Forwarding. Minglong Shao and Rong Yan.
• Exploring Different Cache Designs for Reducing Conflict Misses. Amit Manjhi and Susmit Sarkar.
• Evaluating Data Prefetching within a Software DSM. Xinghua An and Ting Liu.

Characterizing Interesting Workloads:

• Performance Characterization of the Pentium II Using Web Workloads. Shuchi Chawla, Rose Hoberman, and Bianca Schroeder.
• Hardware Resources for Text Mining Applications. Monica Rogati and Lucian Vlad Lita.

Exploiting Novel Instructions and Hardware:

• Exploring the Benefit of GUARD Instructions. Dan Blandford and Takayuki Osogami.
• Evaluating the Impact of Pentium III Multimedia Enhancements on JPEG Decoding. Jernej Barbic, Matthew Rosenkrantz, and Brian Potetz.
• A Reconfigurable Functional Unit as a Peer of the CPU.. Ashwin R. Bharambe and Mahim Mishra.
• Understanding and Improving the Performance of a 3D Graphics Card and Applications. Liu Ren and Hua Zhong.