15-740/18-740 Fall '09
Projects

Handouts:

• How to write up your project proposal (due Wednesday, October 21st, 1:30pm).
• How to write up your milestone report (due Tuesday, November 17th, 1:30pm).
• How to write up your final report (due Tuesday, December 1st, 1:30pm).
• Information on the poster sessions (held on Wednesday, December 2nd, and Thursday, December 3rd, from 1:30-2:50pm in WeH 5409).
  • Please check the schedule to see which day you are presenting your poster!

Meetings:

• Meetings to discuss your project proposal with Prof. Mowry in GHC 7017 on either Monday, October 19th or Tuesday, October 20th.
• Meetings to discuss your project status with Prof. Mowry in GHC 7017 on either Wednesday, November 11th or Tuesday, November 17th.

Projects:

• Projects for 2009.
• Projects from previous years:
  • 2007
  • 2001
  • 2000
  • 1999

Resources:

• Simulators and benchmarks list at U. of Wisconsin's WWW Computer Architecture Page.
• Pin: a binary instrumention tool for x86.
• SimpleScalar: a superscalar processor simulator.
• Simics: a functional simulator for x86 and SPARC.
• SimFlex: a multiprocessor timing simulator.
• GEMS: a multiprocessor timing simulator.
• WARTS: Wisconsin Architectural Research Tool Set: a collection of tools including a path profiling tool, cache simulators, etc.
• Augmint: a multiprocessor simulator for x86 architectures.
• RSIM: a multiprocessor simulator that models out-of-order superscalar processors.
• PARSEC: a suite of parallel applications for shared-memory machines that are often used in parallel architecture studies.
• SPLASH: an older suite of parallel applications for shared-memory machines that are often used in parallel architecture studies. (PARSEC is preferable to SPLASH.)
• MediaBench: multimedia benchmarks.

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