COMP/ELEC 526 at Rice University

Course Handouts

This page will be filled in as handouts become available.

• Course description (NOTE: meeting time and place have changed since initial handout -- now at MWF 2-2:50 PM in Martel College 101)(8/25)
• Student questionnaire (8/25)
• Student presentation information (8/25)
• Student presentation peer-review form (bring copies when you are presenting)
• Oral presentation advice (by Professor Mark Hill; includes guide to giving a bad talk by Professor David Patterson) (8/26)
• Homework #1 (due 9/24) (9/12)
• RSIM simulator description (9/12)
• Term project description (9/22)
• Speculative memory consistency papers (viewable only from Rice -- for 10/17)
  • Two Techniques to Enhance the Performance of Memory Consistency Models (Gharachorloo, Gupta, and Hennessy, 1991)
  • Recent Advances in Memory Consistency Models for Hardware Shared Memory Systems (Adve, Pai, and Ranganathan, 1999): only Sections I-III
• ILP multiprocessor papers (viewable only from Rice -- for 10/31)
  • The Impact of Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors (Pai, Ranganathan, and Adve, 1999)
  • Code Transformations to Improve Memory Parallelism (Pai and Adve, 1999)
• Exam #1 solution (10/24)
• Midterm course evaluation (10/24)
• Simultaneous Multithreading vs. Chip Multiprocessor papers (viewable only from Rice -- for 11/7)
  • Simultaneous Multithreading: A Platform for Next-Generation Processors (Eggers, Emer, Levy, Lo, Stamm, and Tullsen, 1997)
  • Tuning Compiler Optimizations for Simultaneous Multithreading (Lo, Eggers, Levy, Parekh, and Tullsen, 1997)
  • A Single-Chip Multiprocessor (Hammond, Nayfeh, and Olukotun, 1997)
  • Clock Rate versus IPC: The End of the Road for Conventional Microarchitectures (Agarwal, Hrishikesh, Keckler, and Burger, 2000)
• Software DSM papers (viewable only from Rice -- for 11/21)
  • Memory Coherence in Shared Virtual Memory Systems (Li and Hudak, 1991)
  • Implementation and Performance of Munin (Carter, Bennett, and Zwaenepoel, 1991)
  • Treadmarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems (Keleher, Cox, Dwarkadas, and Zwaenepoel, 1994)
  • A Comparison of Entry Consistency and Lazy Release Consistency Implementations (Adve, Cox, Dwarkadas, Rajamony, and Zwanepoel, 1996)
• Papers on speculative synchronization (for 11/17)
  • Transactional Lock-Free Execution of Lock-Based Programs (Rajwar and Goodman, 2002)
  • Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution (Rajwar and Goodman, 2001)
• Papers on embedded parallel architectures (for 11/14)
  • Exploiting Task-Level Concurrency in a Programmable Network Interface (Kim, Pai, and Rixner, 2002)
  • Active Pages: A Computation Model for Intelligent Memory (Oskin, Chong, and Sherwood, 1998)
• Papers on Earth Simulator (for 11/19)
  • System design
  • Programming models

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