From odiessel@cse.unsw.EDU.AU Thu Apr 1 10:10:53 2004 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:43:23 +1100 (EST) From: Oliver Diessel To: comp4211-list@cse.unsw.EDU.AU Subject: Schedule update & further comments Hi all, I have updated the schedule with proposed presentations (to the best of my knowledge - please correct me if I have something wrong). The current schedule is as follows: Schedule -------- Week Date Seminars Refs 01 03/3 Discussion on scope Available texts 02 10/3 Oliver: Pipeline review; hazards Appendix A Ch. 3 03 17/3 Feri: Advanced pipelining App. A Oliver: Hazards; Scoreboarding Ch. 3 04 24/3 Oliver: Dynamic Scheduling & Branch Prediction Ch. 3 05 31/3 Oliver: Multiple Issue & Speculation Ch. 3 Yian: Vector Processors App. G 06 07/4 Boris: Ch 4.1 - 4.5 Ch. 4 Charles: Vector processing App. G 07 21/4 Oliver: Ch 4.6+ Ch. 4 Marco: Counterflow Pipeline Processor 08 28/4 Oliver Ch. 4 Emily: Power Aware Processor Design 09 05/5 Sri: HW/SW Codesign (?) Shannon: Reconfigurable Datapath 10 12/5 Newton: INSIDE Leo: Simultaneous Multithreading (Tullsen's paper) 11 19/5 Frank: DSP design Rampo: Flynn on Very High-Speed Computing Systems 12 26/5 Lih Wen: Processing in Memory/IRAM Hiroshi: DNA computing 13 02/6 Project presentations (1) 14 09/6 Project presentations (2) You will notice a proposed new twist at the end (Weeks 13 & 14). I hope you might find the idea of having to provide a second (short) presentation on your project status as at when you talk, be it Wk 13 or 14, not too distasteful. I envisage everyone talking for 15 to 20 minutes with no more than 5 or 6 slides (HARD LIMIT) in which the meain idea, approach, and results to date are presented. This presentation might be worth 10 marks, say, and thus reduces the weighting on other project elements. Currently those are: o Project [50 marks] - proposal - to be discussed & developed together with Oliver [10 marks] - design & implementation [15 marks] - results & conclusions [15 marks] - write-up - 10 - 20 page report expected [10 marks] Perhaps we would reduce the two 15 mark components above to 10 marks each and insert a 10 mark presentation component. Please let me know (or mail this list) if you have strong feelings that we should not make the change. Would you please think about your project and begin mailing me your ideas so that we get the ball rolling. Remember it is meant to constitute about 8 weeks work; it should demonstrate an effort to understand and experiment in computer architecture research; it does not need to be a new idea - it suffices to make an effort to verify someone else's results, say. When I get around to it, (maybe Easter?) I plan to have our discussions to date and the relevant presentation files available on the web. Cheers, Oliver