Activity
The second work will be divided into 3 parts:
- Text written on one of the themes
- Review of one of the other works in the class
- Oral presentation in the classroom
All works will be available for download on the deliveries.
Themes
Each work will have a unique theme. Each student will do their work individually. Students can suggest extra topics 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.)
[049240]
- Trace caches (what is it, alternatives, etc.) [008448]
- Cache coherence (motivation, techniques, mechanisms, etc.)
[047748]
- Tomasulo algorithm (what is it, implementations, etc.)
[049239]
- Register renaming (what it is, implementations, etc.) [041462]
- High-performance computing
- clusters
[009702]
- BlueGene / L architecture
- NEC Earth Simulator
- TOP500.org (ranking, statistics, features, etc.) [041464]
- Parallelism at instruction level
- VLIW Architectures
[015463]
- Superscalar Architectures
[029043]
- Speculative execution (load speculation, value speculation, etc.)
[041481]
- Thread-level parallelism (Sun's Niagara architecture, Intel's hyperthreading, etc.)
[930886]
- Set of multimedia instructions (MMX, SSE, SSE2, alternatives from other manufacturers, etc.)
[004859]
- Multicolor
[049180]
- Processors
- Cell (IBM / Toshiba / Sony)
[010086]
- Alpha (Digital / Compaq / HP)
[009206]
- Itanium 2
[041470]
- MIPS16 Instruction Set
- x86 - 64-bit (AMD and Intel)
[041438]
- Pentium 4 (advanced parts of the architecture, where does performance come from, etc.) [028352]
- Reconfigurable Architectures
- RAW
- WARP
[028520]
- PipeRench
- Trips
- Languages for Architectural Description
- LISA
- ArchC
[041468]
- Expression
- Disk technologies (ATA / SATA / SCSI, etc.) [008619]
- Virtual machines
- Java Virtual Machine Architecture
[991899]
- .NET Virtual Machine Architecture [002092]
- Digital TV top-box set
[039632]
- Quantum Computing
[049243]
Review of works
Reviews must have 1 page and must be sent by email. 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
Presentations
Presentations should last 15 minutes. The slides must be sent with the work. The slides can be sent in PowerPoint, OpenOffice or PDF format.