15-740 Spring '18
Projects

Here are the class projects for 2018 (in no particular order):

Reuse-Based Adaptive Caching: (poster) (report)
Isaac Grosof and Katherine Cordwell
CaRP : Cache Replacement Policy for Linked Data Structure: (poster) (report)
Tushar Goyal, Rini Patel and Aditi Sinha
Fine Grained Analysis of Read-Modify-Write Performance in NUMA Architectures: (poster) (report)
Naama Ben-David and Ziv Scully
Go Deep: Fixing Architectural Overheads of the Go Scheduler: (poster) (report)
Craig Hesling and Sannan Tariq
GPU/CPU Heterogeneous Work Partitioning: (poster) (report)
Riya Savla, Ridhi Surana and Jordan Tick
MVCS-TM: Multiversion Conflict Serializable Hardware Transactional Memory: (poster) (report)
Ziqi Wang and Hao Wei
In-Memory Data Filtering for Cuckoo Hashing: (poster) (report)
Pooja Nilangekar, Tushar Agarwal and Vamshi Reddy Konagari
Heterogeneous Resource Allocation for Efficient Cluster Management: (poster) (report)
Zachary Ankenman and Benjamin Berg

Projects from previous years:

Here are some links to simulators and other performance analysis tools that you may find useful:

Simulators and benchmarks list at U. of Wisconsin's 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.