Spring 2006: CS 7940-10 Architecture/Async Seminar

General Information:

• Venue: CSL Library
• Time: Wednesday 1pm-2pm
• 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

• Mo 23rd Jan: Liqun : "Dynamic Power-Performance Adaptation of Parallel Computation on Chip Multiprocessors" , J. Li and J. Martinez, Proceedings of HPCA-12, February 2006.
• Wed 1st Feb: Vivek : "3D Processing Technology and its Impact on IA32 Microprocessors" , B. Black, D. Nelson, C. Webb, N. Samra, Proceedings of ICCD, 2004.
  "Timing, Energy, and Thermal Performance of Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits" , S. Das, A. Chandrakasan, R. Reif, Proceedings of GLSVLSI, April 2004.
• Wed 8th Feb: Zhen : "Heat-and-Run: Leveraging SMT and CMP to Manage Power Density Through the Operating System" , M. Powell, M. Gomaa, T.N. Vijaykumar, Proceedings of ASPLOS-XI, October 2004.
• Wed 15th Feb: Dan : "An Ultra Low Power System Architecture for Sensor Network Applications" , M. Hempstead, N. Tripathi, P. Mauro, G-Y. Wei, D. Brooks, Proceedings of ISCA-32, June 2005.
• Wed 22nd Feb: Anton : "Intel Virtualization Technology" , R. Uhlig et al., IEEE Computer, vol 38 (5), May 2005. Supplementary compilation from various manuals.
• Wed 1st Mar: Amlan : "The Implementation of a 2-Core, Multi-Threaded Itanium Family Processor" , S. Naffziger, B. Stackhouse, T. Grutkowski, D. Josephson, J. Desai, E. Alon, M. Horowitz, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, January 2006.
  Supplementary reading: "Montecito: A Dual-Core, Dual-Thread Itanium Processor" , C. McNairy, R. Bhatia, IEEE-Micro, vol. 25 (2), March/April 2005.
  "A 90nm Variable-Frequency Clock System for a Power-Managed Itanium-Family Processor" , T. Fischer, F. Anderson, B. Patella, S. Naffziger, Proceedings of ISSCC, March 2005. Slides
• Wed 8th Mar: Dave : "The Impact of Performance Asymmetry in Emerging Multicore Architectures" , S. Balakrishnan, R. Rajwar, M. Upton, K. Lai, Proceedings of ISCA-32, June 2005.
  
• Wed 15th Mar: Spring break :
• Wed 22nd Mar: Spencer : "Beating In-Order Stalls with Flea-Flicker Two-Pass Pipelining" , R. Barnes, E. Nystrom, J. Sias, S. Patel, N. Navarro, W. Hwu, Proceedings of MICRO-36, December 2003.
  
• Wed 29th Mar: Niti : Summary of recent papers on processor reliability.
• Wed 5th Apr: Abhishek : "A Stateless Content-Directed Data Prefetch Mechanism" , R. Cooksey, S. Jordan, D. Grunwald, Proceedings of ASPLOS, October 2002.
  
• Wed 12th Apr: Vivek : "Thermal Analysis of a 3D Die-Stacked High-Performance Microprocessor" , K. Puttaswamy, G. Loh, Proceedings of GLSVLSI, April 2006.
  
• Wed 19th Apr: No meeting :
• Tue 25th Apr 10:45am, EMCB 122: 7810 class project presentations
• Wed 26th Apr: Al : "Optimizing Stream Programs Using Linear State Space Analysis" , S. Agrawal, W. Thies, S. Amarasinghe, Proceedings of CASES, September 2005.