Parallel Computer Architectures
ECE 5900_07 - Spring Term 2002 Hompage


(a.k.a. ECE 5772)


Instructor: Brian T. Davis

btdavis@mtu.edu

Office Hrs : MWF 10:15-11am ; MW 1:30-2:20pm ; or by Appt.
Office Rm : 729 EERC
Office Ph# : 487-2256
7th Floor Mailbox # : 40


ECE 5772 Course Meeting Times
Day Time Room Type Instructor
MON 9:05-9:55am 216 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
WED 9:05-9:55pm 216 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
FRI 9:05-9:55pm 216 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
Known Class cancelations

2/6 & 2/8 - Winter Carny
2/25 - Out of Office

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ECE 5772 General Information


Lecture Notes


ECE 5772 Reading Assignments

Date
Subject to change
Reference Chapter, Pages, Specifics
Wed January 23th [Culler98] Chapter 1
Mon January 28th [MPR96] "Architects look to processors of future." Gordon Bell, Richard Sites, William Dally, David Ditzel, and Yale Patt.
Microprocessor Report, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 18-24, August 1996.
Mon Febuary 11th [Culler98] Chapter 5
Monday Febuary 18th [Stenstrom90] "A Survey of Cache Coherence Schemes for MultiProcessors." Per Stenstrom. IEEE Computer, June 1990, pp. 12-24.
Wednesday Febuary 20th [Hammond97] "A Single-Chip Multiprocessor." Lance Hammond, Basem A.Nayfeh, Kunle Olukotun. IEEE Computer, September 1997, pp. 79-85.
Friday Febuary 22nd [Slegel99] "IBM’S S/390 G5 MICROPROCESSOR DESIGN." T.J. Slegel, et.al. IBM Corp. IEEE Micro, March 1999. pp.12-23.
Wednesday March 13th [Culler98] Chapter 6
Monday March 25th [Culler98] Chapter 7
Monday April 1st [Becker95] BEOWULF: A PARALLEL WORKSTATION FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION
Donald J. Becker, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Savarese, John E. Dorband, Udaya A. Ranawak, Charles V. Packer.
Proceedings, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1995.
Monday April 1st [Reschke96] A Design Study of Alternative Network Topologies for the Beowulf Parallel Workstation
Chance Reschke, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Ridge, Daniel Savarese, Donald Becker, Phillip Merkey
Proceedings, High Performance and Distributed Computing, 1996.
Wednesday April 10th [Culler98] Chapter 10
Friday April 19th [Intel] Hyper-Threading Technology
Monday April 22nd [Tullsen95] Simultaneous Multihreading: Maximizing On-Chip Parallelism
Dean M. Tullsen, Susan J. Eggers, and Henry M. Levy
Proceedings, International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1995.
Friday April 26th [Culler98] Chapter 11
Wednesday May 1st [Culler98] Chapter 12

ECE 5772 Homework Assignments

All Dates are preiliminary and subject to change.


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