15-740/18-740 Fall '09
Class Handouts Available On-Line

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1: Performance and Technology (Sept. 8) PDF
• Lecture 2: x86 Programming (Sept. 9) PDF
• Lecture 3: RISC vs. CISC Instruction Sets (Sept. 10) PDF
• Lecture 4: The Memory Hierarchy (Sept. 15) PDF
• Lecture 5: Intro to Parallel Architecture (Sept. 16) PDF
• Lecture 6: Parallel Programming: Overview (Sept. 17) PDF
• Lecture 7: Parallel Programming: Performance (Sept. 23) PDF
• Lectures 8-9: Cache Coherence for Small-Scale Machines (Sept. 29-30) PDF
• Lecture 10: Cache Coherence for Large-Scale Machines (Oct. 1) PDF
• Lecture 11: Memory Consistency (Oct. 6) PDF
• Lecture 12: Thread-Level Speculation (Oct. 7)
  • A Scalable Approach to Thread-Level Speculation: PDF
  • Applying Thread-Level Speculation to Database Transactions: PDF
• Lectures 13-15: Recent Research on Architecture (detailed list of papers and presenters)
  • Presentations from Day 1 (Oct. 13)
  • Presentations from Day 2 (Oct. 14)
  • Presentations from Day 3 (Oct. 15)
• Lecture 16: Synchronization (Oct. 20) PDF
• Lecture 17: Interconnection Networks (Oct. 21) PDF
• Lecture 18: Virtual Memory (Oct. 22) PDF
• Lecture 19: Basic Pipelining (Oct. 27) PDF
• Lecture 20: Advanced Pipelining (Oct. 28) PDF
• Lecture 21: Superscalar Processing (Oct. 29)
  • Concepts: PDF
  • Practice: PDF

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