15-418: Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
Spring 2004 Schedule

  

Table 1: 15-418, Spring 2004.

Class	Date	Day	Topic	Reading	Assignments
1	1/13	Tue	Why Study Parallel Architecture?	1.1
2	1/14	Wed	Evolution of Parallel Architecture	1.2
3	1/15	Thu	Fundamental Design Issues	1.3-4
4	1/20	Tue	Parallel Programming: Overview I	2.1-2	L1 Out
5	1/21	Wed	Parallel Programming: Overview II	2.3-4
6	1/22	Thu	Parallel Programming: Performance I	3.1
7	1/27	Tue	Parallel Programming: Performance II	3.2
8	1/28	Wed	Parallel Programming: Performance III	3.3-4
9	1/29	Thu	Par. Prog: Case Studies & Implications	3.5-6	L2 Out
10	2/3	Tue	Workload-Driven Arch Evaluation I	4.1	L1 Due
11	2/4	Wed	Workload-Driven Arch Evaluation II	4.2-3
12	2/5	Thu	Shared Memory Multiprocessors I	5.1
13	2/10	Tue	Shared Memory Multiprocessors II	5.3
14	2/11	Wed	Shared Memory Multiprocessors III	5.4
15	2/12	Thu	Directory-Based Cache Coherence I	8.1-5	L3 Out
16	2/17	Tue	Directory-Based Cache Coherence II	8.6-7, 8.9-11	L2 Due
17	2/18	Wed	Relaxed Memory Consistency Models	9.1
18	2/19	Thu	Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design I	6.1
19	2/24	Tue	Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design II	6.2
20	2/25	Wed	Earthquake Simulation Case Study
	2/26	Thu	Exam I
21	3/2	Tue	Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design III	6.3-4	L3 Due
22	3/3	Wed	Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design IV	6.5, 6.7
23	3/4	Thu	Synchronization	5.5., 7.9, 8.8	Project Proposal
Spring Break
24	3/16	Tue	Scalable Distributed Memory MPs I	7.1-3
25	3/17	Wed	Scalable Distributed Memory MPs II	7.4-8
26	3/18	Thu	Interconnection Network Design	10.1-10
27	3/23	Tue	Latency Tolerance: Prefetching	11.1, 11.6
28	3/24	Wed	Latency Tolerance: Multithreading	11.7-9
	3/25	Thu			Project Milestone 1
	3/30	Tue	Review Session: Lecture Material
	4/1	Thu	Review Session: Practice Exam/Problems
	4/6	Tue	Exam 2
29	4/8	Thu	Meetings to discuss project status		Project Milestone 2
	4/13	Tue	Terascale Computing System at PSC
	4/22	Thu	Project Poster Session		Project Report Due

Back to CS418 home page.