MO401 - Computer Architecture I

General Information

Teacher: Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo (Email)

Class: Thu: 7: 30-11: 30 and Fri: 7: 30-11: 30

Attendance: Thu: afternoon

Room: Auditorium DCT / UFMS

Evaluation

See also

Notices

18/12
Final notes. Write an email if you want some kind of review. I can chat via Skype on Tuesday (22/12) in the late afternoon.
15/12
Tasting notes.
25/11
The time for presentations will be 20 minutes + 2 minutes for questions.
24/11
The works that will be presented are the ones with the letter A at the end of the name in the delivered list. All students who asked to present were awarded.
24/11
All works that were delivered. Deadline for review: 04/12. Make the revision as in the articles of T1.
11/09
All slides of the discipline prepared for printing.
01/09
See listing of the works delivered. Submit the next activities following the naming convention I gave for the files, which is just the registration number without any letter.
28/08
See instructions for submitting abstracts below on this page.
11/08
O video site already with the first classes.
04/08
Attention to important dates in the Post-Graduation Calendar.

Program

REFERENCES

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - 4th edition; Hennessy & Patterson

Exercises

I recommend that you look at all the exercises in the book and do those that you find relevant. 

Jobs

The works are individual and must be delivered until the indicated date

First job

Choose 4 articles related to computer architecture from one of the three last editions of the following conferences: MICRO, DAC, DATE, ISCA, SBAC-PAD. The article can also be from one of the following magazines: TCAD, TVLSI, TECS. Summarize the article on 1 page (including a header with information about the article and who made the summary).

Rules for delivery:

Second Work

The second work will be divided into 3 activities:
  1. Text written on a topic in the area of ​​Computer Architecture. Make the theme reservation on wiki of the discipline
  2. Revision of one of the other texts of the class (for the selection of works for presentation)
  3. Oral presentation (selected works only), with extra score

The documents must be followed following the format of the SBC, limited to 10 pages and must be sent in PDF according to the abstract delivery model. Deadline for delivery: 20/11/2009.

Calendar

06/08
Presentation of the Course. Review and Basic Concepts.
07 / 08S
Review
20/08
Review
21 / 08S
Parallelism at instruction level
03/09
Tomasulo Algorithm, Branch Prediction and Multiple Issue
04 / 09S
Tomasulo Algorithm, Branch Prediction
17/09
ILP limits
18 / 09S
Static exploration of ILP and Exercises
01/10
Exam 1
02 / 10S
Multiprocessors, TLP and Cache Coherence
15/10
Memory Hierarchy
16 / 10S
Memory Hierarchy
12/11
Input and Output
13 / 11S
Input and Output
26/11
Exam 2
27 / 11S
Presentation of papers