Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering

EECS 452 – Advanced Computer Architecture - I

Spring 2009

NEWS

· 05/05/2009 – Second lab assignment is posted. The assignment is due Tuesday, May 19^th

· 04/28/2009 – First homework assignment is posted. The assignment is due Thursday, May 7^th

· 04/28/2009 – The deadline for selecting class presentation topic is Thursday, April 30^th

· 04/28/2009 – The first lab project assignment is posted. The assignment is due Tuesday, May 5^th

· 04/21/2009 – The project progress reports are due Tuesday, April 28^th

· 04/07/2009 – The project proposals are due Tuesday, April 14^th

· 03/27/2009 – Class web site is up

Instructor

Professor Gokhan Memik

Room: L475 Technological Institute

Phone: (847) 467-1168

E-mail: memik@eecs.northwestern.edu

URL: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~memik

Office Hours: Friday 2-3pm, Tech L475

Location and Time

MG28: TuTh 2:00pm – 3:20pm

Course Syllabus:

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Lecture Notes:

Lec1 (PDF)

Lec2 (PDF)

Lec3 (PDF)

Lec4 (PDF)

Lec5 (PDF)

Lec6 (PDF)

Lec7 (PDF)

Lec8 (PDF)

Lec9 (PDF)

Lec10 (PDF)

Homework Assignments (all homework assignments are due start of the class)

HW#1 (due Thursday, May 7^th)

Questions from the 4^th edition of the textbook: 1.3, 1.14, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7

If you own the 3^rd edition please solve these problems: 1.8, 1.16, 2.5, 2.6, and this question (PDF)

Lab Projects

Project#1 (due Tuesday, May 5^th). Please read the guide for using SimpleScalar. The binaries can be downloaded using this link.

Project#2 (due Tuesday, May 19^th). In this assignment, you will use the same applications and base simulators you have learned in the previous lab assignment.

Final Project

The project proposals are due April 14, 2009. The proposal should include ~1 page narration of the topic that will be investigated for the project, list of related works (and/or papers that are read), a plan of how the problem will be attacked and what types of tools/methods will be used during the project. It should also contain an estimate timeline of major milestones.

The project progress reports are due April 28, 2009. The report should include the articles you have read, a precise plan of research progress (including the types of architectures/optimizations you will study and the simulation infrastructure to achieve this).

Presentations

Presentation topics and schedule:

Date	Presenter(s)	Topic	Articles
05/07/2009	Matthew Lowes	Security	- Nathan Tuck, Brad Calder, George Varghese, "Hardware and Binary Modification Support for Code Pointer Protection From Buffer Overflow", in Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, December, 2004 (pdf) - Chenyu Yan, Brian Rogers, Daniel Englender, Yan Solihin and Milos Prvulovic, "Improving Cost, Performance, and Security of Memory Encryption and Authentication", Proc. of International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Boston, June 2006. (pdf)
05/12/2009	James Swaine	Compilers for Parallel Machines	- Michael Chu, Rajiv Ravindran, Scott Mahlke, "Data Access Partitioning for Fine-grain Parallelism on Multicore Architectures", in Proc. of International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Chicago, IL, Dec. 2007 (pdf) - Wen-Mei W. Hwu, Shane Ryoo, Sain-Zee Ueng, John H. Kelm, Issac Gelado, Sam S. Stone, Robert E. Kidd, Sara Sadeghi Baghsorkhi, Aqeel A. Mahesri, Stephanie Tsao, Nacho Navarro, Steve S. Lumetta, Matthew I. Frank, Sanjay J. Patel, “Implicitly Parallel Programming Models for Thousand-Core Microprocessors”, in Proc. of Design Automation Conference, (DAC-44), 2007 (pdf)
05/14/2009	Stephen Wylie	Application-Specific Processors	- T. Karkhanis, J. E. Smith, "Automated design of application specific superscalar processors: an analytical approach", ISCA 2007 (pdf) - Stefanos Kaxiras and Georgios Keramidas, “IPStash: A Power-Efficient Memory Architecture for IP Lookup”, in Proc. of 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-36), San Diego, CA, Dec. 2003 (pdf)
05/19/2009	Chi-Yo Hsiao Jing Xin	Reliability	- Mohamed Gomaa, Chad Scarbrough, T. N. Vijaykumar, and Irith Pomeranz, "Transient-Fault Recovery for Chip Multiprocessors", in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pages 98-109, June 2003 (pdf) - Fred A. Bower, Daniel J. Sorin, and Sule Ozev, "A Mechanism for Online Diagnosis of Hard Faults in Microprocessors", in Proc. of 38th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2005 (pdf) - S. Ozdemir, D. Sinha, G. Memik, J. Adams, H. Zhou, “Yield-Aware Cache Architectures”, in Proc. of International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Orlando, FL, Dec. 2006 (pdf) - Jayanth Srinivasan, Sarita V. Adve, Pradip Bose, and Jude A. Rivers, "The Case for Lifetime Reliability-Aware Microprocessors", in Proceedings of 31^st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '04) June 2004 (pdf)
05/21/2009	Alexander Neckar	Power	- Trevor Mudge, "Power: A First-Class Architectural Design Constraint". IEEE Computer 2001 (pdf) - Dan Ernst, Nam Sung Kim, Shidhartha Das, Sanjay Pant, Rajeev Rao, Toan Pham, Conrad Ziesler, David Blaauw, Todd Austin, Krisztian Flautner, and Trevor Mudge. "Razor: A Low-Power Pipeline Based on Circuit-Level Timing Speculation", in Proc. of 36^th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-36), San Diego, CA, Dec. 2003 (pdf)
05/26/2009	Eric Anger	Chip Multiprocessors	- Saisanthosh Balakrishnan, Ravi Rajwar, Mike Upton, Konrad Lai, “The Impact of Performance Asymmetry in Emerging Multicore Architectures”, in Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2005 (pdf) - Rakesh Kumar, Dean M. Tullsen, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Norman P. Jouppi, Keith I. Farkas, “Single-ISA Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures for Multithreaded Workload Performance”, in Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2004 (pdf)
05/28/2009	Anitha Mohan Lei Xia	Transactional Memory	- Kevin E. Moore, Jayaram Bobba, Michelle J. Moravan, Mark D. Hill & David A. Wood, “LogTM: Log-based Transactional Memory”, in the Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-12), Austin, TX, February 2006 (pdf) - Lance Hammond, Vicky Wong, Mike Chen, Brian D. Carlstrom, John D. Davis, Ben Hertzberg, Manohar K. Prabhu, Honggo Wijaya, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle Olukotun, “Transactional Memory Coherence and Consistency”, in Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2004 (pdf) - Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, JaeWoong Chung, Austen McDonald, Nathan Bronson, Jared Casper, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun, “An Effective Hybrid Transactional Memory System with Strong Isolation Guarantees”, in Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2007 (pdf) - JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Austen McDonald, Travis Skare, Hassan Chafi, Brian D. Carlstrom, Christos Kozyrakis and Kunle Olukotun, “Tradeoffs in Transactional Memory Virtualization”, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2006 (pdf)