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ECE 552 / CPS 550 |
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Advanced Computer Architecture I |
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Fall 2023 |
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Professor Daniel J. Sorin |
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Objectives |
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The objective of this course is to learn the fundamental aspects of computer architecture design and analysis. |
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The course focuses on processor design, pipelining, superscalar, out-of-order execution, caches (memory hierarchies), virtual memory, storage |
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systems, and simulation techniques. Advanced topics include a survey of parallel architectures and future directions in computer architecture. |
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Prerequisites: ECE/CS 250 or ECE 550 or consent of instructor |
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Class Location and Hours |
Class meets Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 10:15-11:05 am.
Location: LSRC D106 (1st floor fishbowl)
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Instructor and Teaching Assistants |
Office: Wilkinson 403
Office
Hours: Tuesday 3-4pm, Friday 1-2pm
Email:
sorin AT ee DOT duke DOT edu
Graduate Teaching Assistants:
Feng Cheng and Weihang Li
Office Hours: Tuesday 1-2pm, Wednesday 1-2pm @ Wilkinson 420
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Required Textbooks |
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th edition, by Hennessy and Patterson |
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A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, 2nd edition, by Nagarajan, Sorin, Hill, and Wood. (free PDF download from Duke IP addresses) |
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Assignments and Grading |
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This course will require readings from the textbooks and from selected research papers. While you will not be quizzed on readings, you |
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should still be certain to have read them before class so that you can learn from the class. And, to appeal to your practical side, all readings are |
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fair game for the exams. Added bonus: you will be better at reading research papers at the end of this class than at the beginning. |
Students are responsible for:
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Late policy for paper reports, homework, and project (except for dean's excuse or STINF): |
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Paper reports: No late paper reports
will be accepted. Grade will be 0. |
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Homework: late by <24 hours = take earned score and divide by 2 -- this
applies to entire assignment (not per question) |
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late by >=24 hours = Grade will be 0. |
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Project: No late projects will be accepted. Grade will be 0. |
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Pandemic Issues: By default, there are no exceptions or extensions in my classes. However, because of the pandemic, there may be new pandemic-related reasons for exceptions and/or extensions. Please contact me if these arise. |
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Academic Misconduct: I will not tolerate academically dishonest work. This includes cheating on the exams and plagiarism on the project. |
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Be careful on the project to cite prior work and to give proper credit to others' research. |
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Refer to the Duke Undergraduate Honor Code or to the instructor if you have any questions about misconduct. Academic misconduct policies will NOT be affected in any way by the pandemic. |
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Topics, Lecture Notes, and Reading Assignments (still in flux!!) |
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I will post lecture notes (in PDF format) on Sakai shortly before I cover them in class. Click on topic title for link to notes. Readings in blue will be provided by the
instructor (click on links below for PS or PDF). |
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Homework |
Homework policy: Homework must be done individually. Violations of this rule will be considered academic misconduct.
Homework assignments will be posted on Sakai.
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Paper Reports |
Paper report policy: Paper reports must be done individually. Each report should be approximately 1 page long.
Each paper report grade is out of 2 points: Good report = 2, poor report = 1, no report = 0.
A report must include all of the
following: contributions of paper (what unmet need is this paper
addressing?), a list of the paper's strengths and weaknesses (not including
grammar or text issues!), and at least one question you have after reading it.
Do not simply regurgitate the abstract.
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Project |
The course project will be performed either individually or in groups of 2 or 3.
Typical projects involve implementing and exploring a microarchitectural idea using a simulator such as SimpleScalar. See Prof. Sorin for project guidelines and ideas.
Project proposals (2 pages max!!): Proposals due Friday, Oct 27. Proposals must contain the following information:
Project reports (15 pages max!!): Reports due Friday, Dec 1. No exceptions!
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Schedule (tentative) |
This is a tentative schedule which may change depending on time constraints.
Also, pandemic.
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Week |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
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Aug 28 |
Intro/Review |
Review |
Goals |
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Sept 4 |
Labor Day |
Pipelining |
Pipelining |
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Sept 11 |
Pipelining |
Superscalar |
Superscalar |
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Sept 18 |
Static ILP |
Static ILP |
Static ILP |
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Sept 25 |
Static ILP |
Dynamic ILP |
Dynamic ILP |
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Oct 2 |
Dynamic ILP |
Dynamic ILP |
Dynamic ILP |
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Oct 9 |
Dynamic ILP |
Dynamic ILP |
Dynamic ILP |
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Oct 16 |
FALL BREAK |
REVIEW FOR MIDTERM |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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Oct 23 |
SIMD/Vector/GPU |
SIMD/Vector/GPU |
SIMD/Vector/GPU Project Proposals Due |
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Oct 30 |
Memory Systems |
Memory Systems |
Memory Systems |
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Nov 6 |
Memory Systems |
Memory Systems |
TLP/Multithreading |
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Nov 13 |
TLP/Multithreading |
Shared Memory |
Consistency |
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Nov 20 |
Consistency |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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| Nov 27 |
Coherence |
Coherence |
Coherence
Project Reports Due |
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Dec 4 |
REVIEW FOR FINAL |
READING PERIOD |
READING PERIOD |
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Dec 11 |
READING PERIOD |
FINALS WEEK |
FINALS WEEK |
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Dec 18 |
FINALS WEEK |
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