CS 740 F'97 Schedule

Class	Date	Day	Topic	Reading	Homework	Who
1	09/15	Mon	Introduction & Overview	H&P Ch. 1	#1 Out	BMM
2	09/17	Wed	MIPS/DLX programming I	H&P Ch. 2, Kane92		REB
3	09/19	Fri	MIPS/DLX programming II			REB
4	09/22	Mon	Instruction set comparison	H&P App. C, D		REB
5	09/24	Wed	Pipelined Implementation I	H&P Ch. 3.1--3.5	#1 Due, #2 Out	REB
6	09/26	Fri	Pipelined Implementation II	H&P Ch. 3.6--3.12		REB
7	09/29	Mon	Advanced Pipelining I	H&P Ch. 4.1-4.2		REB
8	10/01	Wed	Instruction Level Parallelism	H&P Ch. 4.5, 4.7		REB
9	10/03	Fri	Advanced Pipelining II	H&P Ch. 4.3, 4.4, 4.6		REB
10	10/06	Mon	Case Study	Gwennap	#2 Due, #3 Out	REB
11	10/08	Wed	Arithmetic Properties	H&P App. A.1--A.7		BMM
12	10/10	Fri	Arithmetic Implementation	H&P App. A.8--A.12		BMM
	10/13	Mon	Mid-Semester Break
13	10/15	Wed	Memory Technology	H&P Ch. 1.7, 6.2		REB
14	10/17	Fri	Cache Memory	H&P Ch. 5.1--5.7	#3 Due	BMM
15	10/20	Mon	Midterm Exam		#4 Out
16	10/22	Wed	Virtual Memory	H&P Ch. 5.8--5.13		BMM
17	10/24	Fri	Busses & I/O	H&P Ch. 6		BMM
18	10/27	Mon	Multimedia Computing			REB
19	10/29	Wed	Network technology I	H&P Ch. 7.1--7.8		BMM
20	10/31	Fri	Network technology II	H&P Ch. 7.9--7.13		BMM
21	11/03	Mon	Network Protocols	Comer Ch. 3--13	#4 Due, #5 Out	BMM
22	11/05	Wed	Interconnection networks I	H&P Ch. 7		BMM
23	11/07	Fri	Interconnection networks II			BMM
24	11/10	Mon	Message routing	Leighton, Dally		BMM
25	11/12	Wed	Parallel Machines	H&P Ch. 8.1--8.2		BMM
26	11/14	Fri	Data Parallel Programming	Blelloch		BMM
27	11/17	Mon	Control Parallel Programming	Cilk, Sunderam	#5 Due, #6 Out	BMM
28	11/19	Wed	Shared Memory Implementation	H&P Ch. 8.3--8.4		REB
29	11/21	Fri	Cache Protocol verification	Clarke		REB
30	11/24	Mon	Memory Consistency	H&P Ch. 8.5--8.7		REB
	11/26	Wed	Thanksgiving vacation
	11/28	Fri	Thanksgiving vacation
31	12/01	Mon	Processor/Network Interfaces	H&P Ch. 8.8--8.11		BMM
32	12/03	Wed	Vector Machines	H&P App. B, Smith		REB
33	12/05	Fri	Future Technology		#6 Due	REB
	12/09	Tue	Final Exam (1--4pm)

Last Update: 9/25/97

Name: Randal E. Bryant

Email: Randy.Bryant@cs.cmu.edu