MC722 - Work

Information

Reservation: until 20/10 (themes should be indicated on the groups wiki)
Delivery fee: until 09/11 at 8:00
Write MC722 - gXX in the email subject, where XX is your group number
Revision Reservations

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.
The works of previous years are available for consultation, just visit the old pages of the course.

Delivery Format

Send by email, the text must be in PDF format and the presentation can be in one of the indicated formats
Write MC722 - gXX in the email header, where XX is your group number

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, must be written in Portuguese and must follow the SBC model (Word e Latex). Only texts in PDF format will be accepted. The available themes are:

Branch prediction (techniques, alternatives, results, actual information from any processor, etc.)
Cache coherence (motivation, techniques, etc.)
Tomasulo algorithm for dynamically detecting parallelism (what is it, implementations, limitations, etc.)
Register renaming (what it is, implementations, etc.)
Top500.org (ranking, how it is measured, statistics, features, etc.)
Speculative execution (load speculation, value speculation, etc.)
Quantum Computing (what is, for example, what to expect from it, etc.)
Different architectures (TRIPS, RAW, Piperench, etc.)
IBM / Sony / Toshiba Cell processor
DEC / Compaq / HP Alpha processor
SUN Niagara processor
Pentium 4 processor (advanced parts of the architecture, where does the performance come from? Compared to the AMD equivalent)
Java and .NET virtual machines (level of abstraction, hardware implementations, etc.)
Intel / AMD multimedia instruction sets (MMX, SSE, 3DNow! And successors, features, organization, differences and usage examples)
Multimedia instruction sets from other processors (PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS, ARM, etc., features, differences)
IDE / ATA / SATA disks (technology, standard, versions, how the communication is made, price of typical disks currently, etc.)
SCSI disks and similar successors (technology, standard, versions, how the communication is done, currently typical disk prices, etc.)
Inside HD (how data is recorded, recording density, technologies, etc.)
CD / DVD (how data is recorded, recording density, technologies, etc.)
USB interface (technology, standard, versions, how the communication is made, etc.)
Monitors (from CRT to LCD, technology, standard, versions, resolutions, etc.)
Transactional memories (what they are, what they are for, existing models, etc.)

Presentations

Presentations should last 15 minutes. An extra 5 minutes will be reserved for questions. 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 delivered printed by the end of the presentation. 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
Regular
Good
Great

The reviews must be delivered until the end of the presentation of the work. To do this, bring a sheet with items 1, 2 and 3 already printed and only the titles of the other sub-items. Fill it out in the classroom and deliver it at the end of the paper presentation. Revisions that are not delivered at the correct time will not be considered.

Make yours review reservation.