15-740 Fall '07
Projects

• How to write up your project proposal (due Tuesday, October 23rd, noon).
• How to write up your milestone report (due Tuesday, November 20th, noon).
• How to write up your final report (due Tuesday, November 20th, noon).
• Information on the poster session (due Thursday, December 6th, noon-1:20pm, NSH 1305).

• Projects for 2007.
• Projects from previous years:
  • 2001
  • 2000
  • 1999

Resources:

• Pin: a binary instrumention tool for x86.
• SimpleScalar: a superscalar processor simulator.
• SimOS: a simulator which can simulate OS as well as user-level code.
  • SimOS user guide
• 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.
• MINT: a multiprocessor simulator for MIPS architectures.
• RSIM: a multiprocessor simulator that models out-of-order superscalar processors.
• SPLASH: a suite of parallel applications for shared-memory machines that are often used in parallel architecture studies.
• MediaBench: multimedia benchmarks.

Other resources:

• Simulators and benchmarks list at U. of Wisconsin's WWW Computer Architecture Page.
• CPU Info Center