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CSCI 6461 Section 12 Spring 2025 CRN 26451 Meets in Phillips Hall 416 (PHIL) Thursdays 6:10PM-8:40PM
Course Outline and Schedule Course Video Links |
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Topic |
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1/16 |
Introduction For Next Week
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Class
Project |
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1/23 |
Basic
System Design
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Link to
supplemental files Recorded Lecture Passcode 20kfE^eb |
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1/30 |
Instruction
Set
Architecture *Project Part 0 (assembler) Due Midnight 2/1 Term Paper Topic Due Midnight 2/1 |
Appendix K Survey of Instruction
Set Architectures Lecture 3 Instruction Set Architecture Link to supplemental filesRecorded Lecture Passcode BpW*^A4k Lecture from 6 Feb |
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2/06 |
Memory
System Design:
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H&P
Chapter 2, Appendix
B (internal to Book) Lecture 4 Memory System
Design Recorded Lecture Passcode TQKZ2$8k - Lecture from 13 Feb Recorded Lecture Passcode: &Uv6+RCM - Lecture from Feb 20, continues into I/O system design below |
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2/13 |
I/O System
Design Light Coverage on Final |
Link to
supplemental files |
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2/20
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Improving
Performance Pipelining, General Considerations, Instruction and Arithmetic Pipelines with examples *Project Part 1 Due Midnight 2/22 |
H&P
3, Appendix A,
Appendix H MIPS
Overview Link to External Videos Related To Performance Improvements Note that the link to exteranal videos above provides excellent mips overview and pipeline coverage and covers the material necessary for the exam. They are provided to cover MIPS overview and piplining where we had difficulties with ZOOM MIPS Overview Lecture (and last of the I/O) Passcode: .1!Bik5! MIPS Pipeline Control Lecture of March 6 Passcode: Zan5&8PZ Static Scheduling Leading Into Tomasulo Lecture of March 20 Passcode: 8+v0p*pD |
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| 2/27 |
Improving
Performance Pipelining, |
Lecture 8 Instruction Level
Parallelism Branch
Prediction Link to Externa Videos Related To Performance Improvements Note theses are excellent references and cover the course material End of Tomasulo Lecture/ Speculation and Beginning of Vector Operations - March 27 Passcode: te*o4+Wx |
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3/06 |
Vector Operations
*Project
Part 2 Due Midnight 3/08 |
H&P
4.2, 4.3 Appendix
G
Link to supplemental files Link to Externa Videos Related To Performance Improvements |
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3/13 |
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3/20 |
High
Performance Computing |
Lecture 10 High Performance
Computing - Multiprocessors Interconnect
Video (view at 20 minutes into video) |
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3/27 |
Multiprocessors Term
Paper Due Midnight 3/29 |
H&P Chapter 4, Appendix I
Cache Coherency Snooping Protocol Cache Coherency Directory Protocol Muliprocessor Lecture - April 3 With Networks |
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4/03 |
Multi core Architectures *Project Part 3 Due Midnight 4/6 |
Lecture 12 Multi core Architectures Link to supplemental filesOnly basics on exam |
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| 4/10 |
GPU Architectures |
H&P
Chapter 4 |
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| 4/17 |
FINAL Exam Review | Sample
Final Sample Final Coherency Protocol Final Review Lecture of 17 April Passcode: knc92nU$ |
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4/24 |
FINAL Exam 2- Hours Timed |
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4/28 |
Last Day of Classes
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*All
work due by 11:59 pm |
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