15-740/18-740 Fall '12
Class Handouts Available On-Line

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
• Lectures 8-9: Cache Coherence for Small-Scale Machines (Sept. 26-27) PDF
• Lecture 10-11: Cache Coherence for Large-Scale Machines (Oct. 2-3) PDF
• Lecture 12: Memory Consistency (Oct. 4) PDF
• Lecture 13: Synchronization (Oct. 10) PDF
• Lecture 14: Thread-Level Speculation (Oct. 11)
  • A Scalable Approach to Thread-Level Speculation: PDF
  • Applying Thread-Level Speculation to Database Transactions: PDF
• Lectures 15-17: Recent Research on Architecture (detailed list of papers and presenters)
  • Presentations from Day 1 (Oct. 16)
  • Presentations from Day 2 (Oct. 17)
  • Presentations from Day 3 (Oct. 18)
• Lecture 19: Interconnection Networks (Oct. 24) PDF
• Lecture 20: Virtual Memory (Oct. 25) PDF
• Lecture 20: Pipelining: Overview and Hazards (Oct. 30) PDF
• Lecture 21: Pipelining: Superscalar Processing (Oct. 31)
  • Concepts: PDF
  • Practice: PDF

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