15-347 Spring '97
Class Handouts Available On-Line

Lecture notes

• Lecture 01 (Jan 14): Course introduction (reb) (postscript) Course overview (droh) (postscript)
• Lecture 02 (Jan 16): Measurement and performance (postscript)
• Lecture 03 (Jan 21): Performance benchmarking (lying with numbers) (postscript)
• Lectures 04, 05, 06 (Jan. 23, 28, 30): MIPS Programming (postscript)
• Lecture 07 (Feb. 4): Optimizing Code (postscript)
• Lecture 08 (Feb. 6): Instruction Set Comparison (postscript)
• Lecture 09 (Feb. 11): Basic Pipeline Design (postscript)
• Lecture 10 (Feb. 13): Data Hazards (postscript)
• Lecture 11 (Feb. 20): Control Hazards (postscript)
• Lecture 12 (Feb. 25): Pipeline Wrap-Up (postscript)
• Lecture 13 (Feb. 27): High Performance Processors (postscript)
• Lecture 14 (Mar. 4): Exploiting Instruction Level Parallelism (postscript)
• Lecture 15 (Mar. 6): Integer Arithmetic (postscript)
• Lecture 16 (Mar. 11): Floating Point Arithmetic (postscript)
• Lecture 17 (Mar. 13): Division, Pentium Style (postscript)
• Lecture 18 (Mar. 18): Memory Technology (postscript)
• Lecture 19 (Apr. 1): Intro to Caches (postscript)
• Lecture 20 (Apr. 3): More about Caches (postscript)
• Lecture 21 (Apr. 8): Virtual Memory (postscript)
• Lecture 22 (Apr. 10): I/O (postscript)
• Lecture 23 (Apr. 15): Multimedia Computing
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  Note: Since the images didn't print well in the handouts or in my slides, I've created a special image example page demonstrating the range of quality you get for different compression levels.
• Lecture 24 (Apr. 17 & 22): Networks (postscript)
• Lecture 25 & 26 (Apr. 22 & 24): Internetworking (postscript) Note: the Berkeley sockets code mentioned in the lecture is available in /afs/cs/academic/class/15347-s97/public/lectures/sockets.
• Lecture 27 (Apr. 29): Parallel Computing Systems
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• Lecture 28 (May 1): Earthquake Modeling on Parallel Computers
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Homeworks

• Homework 1 (Jan 16-23): Measuring performance (postscript) (ascii solution).
• Homework 2 (Jan 23-30): MIPS assembly programming (postscript) (ascii solution).
• Homework 3 (March 11-18): Computer Arithmetic (postscript) (postscript solution).
• Homework 4 (April 22 - May 1): Multimedia Computing (postscript)

Labs

• Lab 1 (Jan 30 - Feb 13) MIPS assembly optimization (postscript) (ascii solution).
• Lab 2 (Feb 20 - Mar 11): Pipeline Processor Implementation (postscript).
• Lab 3 (Apr 1 - Apr 17 (code)/Apr 22 (hardcopy)): Trace-driven Cache Simulation (postscript).

Recitation Materials

• Memory Hierarchy problems (April 14) (postscript)