| Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 2 September No Class, Labor Day | 4 September Introduction/Performance Lecture 1 Notes |
6 September Using perf Lecture 2 Notes Optional Reading: Performance -- P&H 2007 Chapter 4 or P&H RISC-V Chapter 1 Optional Reading: Perf Zine |
| Week 2 | 9 September Simple Microprocessor: ISA/RISC Lecture 3 Notes Optional Reading: CPUs -- P&H 2007 Chapter 2 or P&H RISC-V Chapter 2 |
11 September Simple Microprocessor: Other Features Lecture 4 Notes |
13 September Advanced Microprocessors (Pipelines, Super-Scalar) Lecture 5 Notes Optional Reading: Pipelines and Super-Scalar -- P&H 2007 Chapter 6 or P&H RISC-V Chapter 4 |
| Week 3 | 16 September Advanced Microprocessors (SIMD, CMP, SMT) Lecture 6 Notes Optional Reading: P&H RISCV Chapter 4.11 |
18 September Advanced Microprocessors (Out-of-Order) Lecture 7 Notes |
20 September Paper Discussion, Power and Energy Measurement Lecture 8 Notes Optional Reading: H&P Chapter 1.5 |
| Week 4 | 23 September System Power, CMOS Power Equation Lecture 9 Notes |
25 September Static Branch Predictors Lecture 10 Notes Optional Reading: H&P Chapter 3.3 |
27 September Dynamic Branch Predictors/Value Prediction Lecture 11 Notes |
| Week 5 | 30 September Caches Lecture 12 Notes Optional Reading: H&P Chapter 2.1, Appendix B |
2 October More Caches Lecture 13 Notes |
4 October Two Cache Examples Lecture 14 Notes |
| Week 6 | 7 October Cache Coherency, SW Prefetch Lecture 15 Notes |
9 October HW4 Review, Hardware Prefetch Lecture 16 Notes |
11 October Prefetch wrapup / Cache Optimization Lecture 17 Notes |
| Week 7 | 14 October Fall Break |
16 October Engineering Job Fair |
18 October Virtual Memory Lecture 18 Notes |
| Week 8 | 21 October Virtual Memory + Caches Lecture 19 Notes |
23 October VM Wrapup Lecture 20 Notes |
25 October Cache Security/Meltdown/Spectre Lecture 21 Notes |
| Week 9 | 28 October CPU Energy / Midterm Review Lecture 22 Notes |
30 October Midterm Exam |
1 November DRAM Lecture 23 Notes |
| Week 10 | 4 November SDRAM/DDR Lecture 24 Notes |
6 November Advanced DRAM Lecture 25 Notes |
8 November DRAM Papers Lecture 26 Notes |
| Week 11 | 11 November No Class, Veterans' Day |
13 November Future of RAM Lecture 27 Notes |
15 November Intel Papers Lecture 29 Notes |
| Week 12 | 18 November Top500 BoF Assignment (no class notes) |
20 November No Class (Supercomputing) |
22 November Supercomputing Recap, ARM Reading Lecture 30 Notes |
| Week 13 | 25 November AMD Reading, Magnetic Hard Disks Lecture 31 Notes Lecture 28 Notes |
27 November Thanksgiving |
29 November Thanksgiving |
| Week 14 | 2 December SSD/Flash Storage Lecture 32 Notes |
4 December GPU Background Lecture 33 Notes |
6 December GPU Hardware Lecture 34 Notes |
| Week 15 | 9 December NVIDIA GPU Readings Lecture 35 Notes |
11 December Project Presentations |
13 December Project Presentations |