15-740 Fall '00
In-Class Discussions

Here is some advice on how to lead a discussion.

Uniprocessors, Part 0: Wednesday, October 4, 2000

Topic Time Slot Discussion Leader
Prefetching Pointer-Based Applications 11:30-11:50 Todd C. Mowry


Uniprocessors, Part 1: Friday, October 6, 2000

 
Topic Time Slot Discussion Leaders
Branch Prediction 10:30-10:50 Chris Palmer & Sungwoo Park
Trace Caches 10:50-11:10 Emil Talpes & Suraj Sudhir
Value Prediction 11:10-11:30 Joe Vanderwaart & Yan Karklin
Dynamic Code Optimization 11:30-11:50 Kevin Watkins & Andrew Faulring


Uniprocessors, Part 2: Monday, October 9, 2000

 
Topic Time Slot Discussion Leaders
Database Performance 10:30-10:50 Jichauan Chang, Jingcao Hu & Ningning Hu
Multimedia Support 10:50-11:10 Urs Hengartner, Rajesh Balan & Gavin Jaentjens
Predication & IA-64 11:10-11:30 Kedar Dhamdhere & Michael Raymond
Reconfigurable Computing 11:30-11:50 Joao Sousa & Francisco Pereira


Multiprocessors: Monday, November 6, 2000


 
Topic Time Slot Discussion Leaders
Memory Consistency Models 10:30-10:50 Dan Bohus, Brigitte Pientka & Shawn Butler
Simultaneous Multithreading 10:50-11:10 Patrick Riley, Suman Nath & Nikhil Bansal
Speculative Multiprocessing 11:10-11:30 Martin Zinkevich, Alex Groce & Ioannis Koutis
Parallel Applications 11:30-11:50 Brenda Liu, Hyang-Ah Kim & SoYoung Park



Todd Mowry