15-740 Fall '95
Course Schedule

The complete schedule is available in GIF form. Here are the simple version of the schedule and the referenced papers in postscript form:

 

Date    Topic                                              Reading	    				Homework    
09/19   Introduction & Overview               H&P Ch. 1					#1 Out
09/21   MIPS/DLX programming		   H&P Ch. 2  
09/26   Instruction set comparison	      H&P App. D
09/28   Pipelined Implementation               H&P Ch. 3				#1 Due, #2 Out
10/03   Advanced Pipelining			   H&P Ch. 4
10/05   Instr. level parallelism		   H&P Ch. 4
10/10   Case study                      		  H&P App. C, Smith94
10/12   Computer Arithmetic			  H&P App. A				#2 Due, #3 Out
10/17   Cache Memory				    H&P Ch. 5
10/19   Virtual Memory				     H&P Ch. 5
10/24   Input/Output & Storage 			H&P Ch. 6
10/26   Network mechanism			H&P Ch. 7 				#3 Due, #4 Out
10/31   Network Protocols			  Comer Ch 1--10
11/02   Parallel computing overview	    Trew
11/07   Interconnection networks	     H&P Ch. 7
11/09   Message routing	                            Leighton, Dally			#4 Due, #5 Out
11/14   Data Parallel programming	    Leiserson
11/23   Thanksgiving vacation		
11/28   Shared memory machines		    P&H Ch. 8				 #5 Due, #6 Out
11/30   Cache protocol verification	     Blumofe
12/07   Message passing machines          Sunderam   #6 Due
12/11   Final Exam

The Following are the referenced papers which are not available in postscript form:

• [Comer] Comer, D. E., Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, Prentice Hall, 1991, pp. 1--158. In reference section of E\&S Library, Call Number 004.6C73i2.
• [Dally] Dally, W. J., ``Network and Processor Architectures for Message-Driven Computers,'' VLSI and Parallel Computation, Suaya, R., and Birtwistle, G., eds., Morgan Kaufmann, 1990, Chapter 3.1, pp.140--169.
• [Leighton] Leighton, T., ``Methods for Message Routing in Parallel Machines,'' 24th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '92), May, 1992, pp.77--96.
• [Smith94] Smith, J. E., and Weiss, S., ``PowerPC 601 and Alpha 21064: A Tale of Two RISCs,'' IEEE Computer, June, 1994, pp.46--58.
• [Smith91] Smith, J. R., and Taylor, W. R., ``Accurate Modeling of Interconnection Networks in Vector Supercomputers,'' 1991 International Conference on Supercomputing, ACM, 1991, pp.264--272.
• [Trew] Trew, A., and Wilson, G., Past, Present, and Parallel: A Survey of Available Parallel Computing Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp.1--12.