MC722 - Work

Information

Reservation: until 06/10 (your email must contain the theme and group number)
Delivery fee: until 27/10
Write MC722 in the subject of the email

Travel Tips

Every work must have a bibliography (URLs are not bibliographies).
Bibliographies must be cited in the text.
Every job must have a title! This title should be highlighted on the first page.
Every work has an author, the name and RA of each author must be on the first page of the work. The identification of the group as well.
Make sure you know what a certain topic is about before choosing it.
Os MC722 works from last year are available for consultation

Delivery Format

Send by email, the text must be in PDF format and the presentation can be in one of the formats indicated at the end of the page
Write MC722 in the email header

Activity

The work will be divided into 2 parts:

Text written on one of the topics below
Oral presentation in the classroom

Themes

Each work will have a unique theme. Groups can suggest extra themes to include in this list. Papers must have a maximum of 8 pages (follow this ACM model) and must be written in Portuguese. Only texts in PDF format will be accepted.

Branch-prediction (techniques, alternative approaches, results, etc.) [G13]
Trace caches (what is it, alternatives, etc.)
Cache coherence (motivation, techniques, mechanisms, etc.)
Tomasulo algorithm (what is it, implementations, etc.)
Register renaming (what it is, implementations, etc.)
High-performance computing
- clusters [g04]
- BlueGene / L architecture [g09]
- NEC Earth Simulator [g08]
- TOP500.org (ranking, statistics, features, etc.)
Parallelism at instruction level

VLIW Architectures [g01]

Superscalar Architectures
Speculative execution (load speculation, value speculation, etc.)

Thread-level parallelism (Sun's Niagara architecture, Intel's hyperthreading, etc.) [g23]
Multimedia instruction set (MMX, SSE, SSE2, alternatives from other manufacturers, etc.) [g02]
Multicolor [g07]
Processors

Cell (IBM / Toshiba / Sony) [g19]

Alpha (Digital / Compaq / HP)
Itanium 2 [g11]
MIPS16 Instruction Set [g12]
x86 - 64-bit (AMD and Intel) [g10]
Pentium 4 (advanced parts of the architecture, where does performance come from, etc.) [g15]
ARM [g20]

Reconfigurable Architectures

RAW [g21]
WARP
PipeRench [g17]
Trips [g22]

Languages for Architectural Description

LISA
ArchC [g03]
Expression

Disk technologies (ATA / SATA / SCSI, etc.) [g18]
Virtual machines

Java Virtual Machine Architecture [g05]
.NET Virtual Machine Architecture [g06]

Quantum Computing [g16]
Low power consumption (Pentium M) [g14]

Presentations

Presentations should last 20 minutes. The slides must be sent with the work. The slides can be sent in PowerPoint, OpenOffice (if you have them in CB) or PDF format.

Revisions (optional)

Reviews must have 1 page and must be sent by email. Revisions will count as bonuses in the assignment note. Only students who request will be scheduled to review. Each review should be divided into two parts, the first containing the title of the work and the author of the review (name and RA). The second part should follow all the items below, in that order:

Summary: 1 single paragraph of a maximum of 15 lines, containing a summary of the work. It cannot be a copy of the summary section of the text.
Comments: 1 single paragraph of a maximum of 5 lines, containing comments on the work
Evaluation of the text: Notes from 1 (minimum) to 5 (maximum) for each of the items below. Use a line of text to comment on each item.

Style: Does the work follow the indicated style?
Organization: Is the work well organized? Are the sections well distributed and in good order?
Contextualization: Does the job have a motivation? Is it possible to find its relationship with other themes in the area?
Portuguese: Is the text well written?
Content: Does the text have a content consistent with the chosen theme?
Relevance: Is the text relevant to the Computer Architecture area?
Extra knowledge: Did the text offer extra knowledge about the given subject?
REFERENCES: Is the bibliography consistent, correct and in sufficient quantity? (URLs are not complete bibliographic references)
General Note: A general note about the whole text

Evaluation of the presentation: Notes from 1 (minimum) to 5 (maximum) for each of the items below. Use a line of text to comment on each item.

Content: What was shown was consistent with what is written in the text?
Slides: Were the slides well prepared?
Time: Was the time followed correctly?
Motivation: Did the presenter motivate students on the topic?
Questions: Did the presenter answer the questions satisfactorily?
General Note: A general note about the presentation

Final grade of the work: A score between 0 (minimum) and 10 (maximum) for the work.

As a standard for grades 1 to 5, consider the following scale:

Bad
Wide
Moderate
Good
Great

The revisions must be delivered by 10/11 or two days after the presentation of the revised work (the most distant date is valid).