Spring 2004: CS 7940-10 Architecture/Async Seminar

General Information:

• Venue: CSL Library, 4th floor east
• Time: Friday, 12:00-1:30pm
• Instructors: Rajeev Balasubramonian and Al Davis
• Class mailing list: arch-rd-club@cs.utah.edu. Visit the mailman system to sign up or modify.

Class Schedule

• Fr 23rd Jan: Mike and Rajeev : "TLC: Transmission Line Caches" , B.M. Beckmann, D.A. Wood, Proceedings of MICRO-36, December 2003. Slides.
  Supplementary reading: "An Adaptive, Non-Uniform Cache Structure for Wire-Dominated On-Chip Caches", , C. Kim, D. Burger, S.W. Keckler, Proceedings of ASPLOS-X, October 2002.
• Fr 30th Jan: Binu : "Exploiting ILP, DLP, and TLP with the Polymorphous TRIPS Processor" , K. Sankaralingam, R. Nagarajan, H. Liu, C. Kim, J. Huh, D. Burger, S.W. Keckler, C.R. Moore, Proceedings of ISCA-30, June 2003.
• Fr 6th Feb: Zhen : "The Thrifty Barrier: Energy-Aware Synchronization in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors" , J. Li, J.F. Martinez, M.C. Huang, Proceedings of HPCA-10, February 2004. Slides.
  
• Fr 13th Feb: Liqun : "Stream Register Files with Indexed Access" , N. Jayasena, M. Erez, J.H. Ahn, W.J. Dally, Proceedings of HPCA-10, February 2004. Slides.
  
• Fr 20th Feb: Karthik : "Power-Aware Branch Prediction: Characterization and Design", D. Parikh, K. Skadron, Y. Zhang, M. Stan, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 53(1), January 2004. Slides.
  
• Fr 27th Feb: Gaurav : "FLEETzero: An Asynchronous Switching Experiment" , W.S. Coates, J.K. Lexau, I.W. Jones, S.M. Fairbanks, I.E. Sutherland, Proceedings of ASYNC 2001. Slides.
  Background reading: "Computers without Clocks" , I.E. Sutherland and J. Ebergen, Scientific American, August 2002.
• Fr 5th Mar: No Class
• Fr 12th Mar: Dave : "ASIM - An Asynchronous Architectural Level Simulator", D. Nellans, V.K. Kadaru, E. Brunvand, Proceedings of GLSVLSI, April 2004.
• Fr 19th Mar: Spring Break
• Fr 26th Mar: Vamshi : "Long Wires and Asynchronous Control", R. Ho, J. Gainsley, R. Drost, Proceedings of ASYNC, 2004. Slides.
• Fr 2nd Apr: Grad Visit
• Fr 9th Apr: Naveen (and a 16-minute practice talk by Dave) "Out-of-Order Commit Processors", A. Cristal, D. Ortega, J. Llosa, M. Valero, Proceedings of MICRO-36, December 2003. Slides.
• Fr 16th Apr: Ali "Energy Efficient Cluster Co-Processors" , A. Ibrahim, M. Parker, A. Davis, Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2004.
• Fr 23rd Apr: Zhen (Note: meet at 1:15pm!) "Highly Efficient Synchronization Based on Active Memory Operations" , L. Zhang, Z. Fang, J. Carter, Proceedings of International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2004.