15-740 Fall '07
Class Handouts Available On-Line

All handouts identified as ``PDF'' are in Adobe Acrobat format. You, can view and print these files using the publicly available Adobe Acrobat Reader. On most campus Unix machines this is installed as the program acroread. You can also download free copies of the reader from Adobe Systems.

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1: Performance and Technology (Sept. 11) PDF
• Lecture 2: x86 Programming (Sept. 12) PDF
• Lecture 3: RISC vs. CISC Instruction Sets (Sept. 13) PDF
• Lecture 4: The Memory Hierarchy (Sept. 18) PDF
• Lecture 5: Intro to Parallel Architecture (Sept. 19) PDF
• Lecture 6: Parallel Programming: Overview (Sept. 20) PDF
• Lecture 7: Parallel Programming: Performance (Sept. 25) PDF
• Lecture 8: Cache Coherence for Small-Scale Machines (Sept. 26) PDF
• Lecture 9: Cache Coherence for Large-Scale Machines (Sept. 27) PDF
• Lecture 10: Memory Consistency (Oct. 2) PDF
• Lecture 11: Thread-Level Speculation (Oct. 3)
  • A Scalable Approach to Thread-Level Speculation: PDF
  • Applying Thread-Level Speculation to Database Transactions: PDF
• Lecture 12: Transactional Memory (Oct. 4) PDF
• Lecture 16: Synchronization (Oct. 17) PDF
• Lecture 17: Interconnection Networks (Oct. 18) PDF
• Lecture 18: Virtual Memory (Oct. 24) PDF
• Lecture 19: Basic Pipelining (Oct. 25) PDF
• Lecture 20: Advanced Pipelining (Oct. 30) PDF
• Lecture 21: Superscalar Processing (Oct. 31)
  • Concepts: PDF
  • Practice: PDF

Supplementary Information

• A good source of information on microprocessors is Microprocessor Report. The subscription price is high, but you get lots of information for your money. The CMU E&S Library has a subscription.

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