CS441 - Architecture - 2008

Meeting time: TR 9:45-11:15
Room 106 Chapman Building
University of Alaska Fairbanks

UAF CS F441-F01
3.0 Credits, Fall 2008
Prerequisites: CS 321 (OS), EE 341

Instructor: Dr. O. Lawlor
ffosl@uaf.edu, 474-7678
Office: 201E Chapman
Hours: 11:15-noon TR, by appointment, or just drop by!

Announcements

Final exam and overall course letter grades are posted on NetRun, along with some comments on your final projects. Thanks for all your hard work!
The final exam is this Tuesday at 8am, in the usual classroom Chapman 106.
Turn in your Project 2 final draft code on Blackboard by midnight Tuesday. I'd like your source code, with plenty of clear comments, along with some clearly defined performance numbers and/or graphs in a README file.
Project 2 rough draft comments are posted on NetRun. Nice work, everybody! Project presentations are next Tuesday, December 9th; plan on about 15 minutes each. Be sure to have some good benchmarks to show!

Project 2 is posted. Upcoming deadlines:

November  
Mo Tu We Th Fr  
 3  4  5  6  7  
10 11 12 13 14 <- Project topic writeup due 
17 18 19 20 21  
24 25 26 27 28 <- Rough draft code due, Thanksgiving break

   December
Mo Tu We Th Fr
 1  2  3  4  5
 8  9 10 11 12 <- Presentations, last day of class
15 16 17 18 19 <- Final exam, final code due
22 23 24 25 26
29 30 31

HW3 was posted on NetRun, and due Thursday, November 6, 2008 at midnight.
Project 1 is now complete.
HW2 on CPU design was due Tuesday, September 16 at midnight.
HW1 was due Tuesday, September 9 in class.

Links

NetRun lets you run code right from your web browser. Anybody with a UAF email address can get a password online. See NetRun Help. Send me bug reports!
Lecture Notes:
- 12_11_review, Course Review for Final Exam modified 2008-12-11
- 12_04_limits, The Outer Limits... of Computing modified 2008-12-04
- 12_02_gpu, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Programming modified 2008-12-01
- 11_20_wave_example, Example Parallel Program: Shallow-Water Wave Equation modified 2008-11-25
- 11_18_parallel_performance, Parallel Problem Decomposition modified 2008-11-18
- 11_11_mpi, Parallel Clusters with MPI modified 2008-11-11
- 11_06_shared_mem, Hardware Implementation of Shared Memory modified 2008-11-06
- 11_04_openmp, Threaded Programming via OpenMP modified 2009-02-17
- 10_30_threads, Parallel Processing with Threads & Processes modified 2008-10-30
- 10_23_parallel_theory, Parallel Computing Theory modified 2008-10-23
- 10_09_sse, SSE: Parallel Arithmetic modified 2010-10-26
- 10_07_float, Floating Point Computation and x86 Assembly modified 2008-10-07
- 10_02_cache, The Memory Hierarchy modified 2009-02-17
- 09_30_superscalar, Superscalar: Multiple Instructions Per Clock modified 2008-09-29
- 09_25_pipelining, Pipelining modified 2008-09-25
- 09_18_asm2, Instruction Frequencies in Assembly Language modified 2008-09-18
- 09_16_assembly, Computing! modified 2009-02-17
- 09_11_complex_circuits, Designing Complicated Circuits modified 2008-09-11
- 09_09_cpu_construction, Building a CPU From Scratch modified 2008-09-09
- 09_04_history, A Brief History of Computing, starting in 150 BC modified 2008-09-08

Project 1 presentation schedule:

Tuesday, October 14:

Farrin Reid: HDCP
Chris Start: Multi-Core
Brian Paden: Larrabee

Thursday, October 16:

Ezra Strong: Data Storage (magnetic, flash, nanowires, holography)
Tim Kvitek: Playstation 3 and Cell CPU
Dr. Lawlor: Review for Midterm Exam (to be held Tuesday, October 21)

Course syllabus includes dates to remember, the grading policy, and a course outline.

Documentation

If you haven't written x86 assembly, read my NASM x86 cheat sheet or the NASM Docs, in particular the x86 Instruction List. The CS 301 site is useful too, especially the 301 lecture notes.

O. Lawlor, ffosl@uaf.edu
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