CS641 - Advanced Architecture - 2009

• Final Exam and overall course grades are posted on NetRun. Thanks for a fun semester!
• The final exam was held at 12:15pm in Chapman 201 on Saturday, May 9.
• Turn in your Project 2 final code on Blackboard by midnight Thursday, May 7th.
• Homework 6, on GPU programming, was due on blackboard by midnight Tuesday, April 21. I also just posted my updated, easier to use GPGPU classes (Zip, Tar-gzip).
• HW5 comments are posted on NetRun. In honor of the upcoming comprehensive exam, I won't assign HW6 until after Saturday.
• Homework 5, on MPI and OpenMP programming, was due at midnight Tuesday, March 31.
• Midterm and Course Grades are posted on NetRun. You guys did well on the midterm--nice job!
• Homework 4, on PIC microcontroller programming, was due Friday, March 6.
• The course midterm exam was on Thursday, March 5.
• Project 1 presentations were Tuesday, March 3.
• Your Project 1 Topic Paper was due Tuesday, February 24th at midnight on Blackboard.
• Homework 3, on dependencies and superscalar execution, was due Thursday, February 12 at midnight on Blackboard.
• Homework 2, in NetRun, was due Thursday, February 5 in class.
• Homework 1, handed out in class, was due Thursday, January 29 in class.

• 04_07_GPGPU, "GPGPU": General-Purpose computations on Graphics Processing Units modified 2009-04-06
• 04_02_FEM, Parallelizing Finite Element Simulations modified 2009-04-02
• 03_31_broadcast, Building Broadcast From Point-to-Point modified 2009-03-31
• 03_23_MPI, Distributed-Memory Parallel Programming with MPI modified 2009-03-23
• 02_24_microcontroller, Embedded Systems: Microcontrollers modified 2009-02-24
• 02_19_parallelize, Parallel Algorithm Design & Performance Analysis modified 2009-02-19
• 02_17_threads, Threads: Parallel Programs modified 2009-02-17
• 02_12_cache, Cache & the Memory Hierarchy: Serial and Parallel modified 2009-02-11
• 02_10_sse, SSE: Streaming SIMD Extensions (parallel floats) modified 2010-10-26
• 02_05_superscalar, Superscalar, Out-of-Order, and Register Renaming modified 2009-02-04
• 02_03_pipelining, Pipelining, Pipeline Stalls, and Operand Forwarding modified 2009-02-02
• 01_29_arguments, Machine Code: Encoding Operand Arguments modified 2009-01-29
• 01_27_encoding, Instruction Encoding and Assembly Language modified 2009-01-29

Reference Material

• Course syllabus includes dates to remember, the grading policy, and a course outline.
• My CS 441 lecture notes have a variety of useful information on computer architecture.

O. Lawlor, ffosl@uaf.edu
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