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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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第0週 |
** Note ** |
**** This syllabus is subject to change **** |
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第1週 |
9/10 |
Course Introduction |
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第2週 |
9/17 |
Lecture:<br>
Basics of Computer Architecture Design |
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第3週 |
9/24 |
Lecture:<br>
Memory Hierarchy: Cache management & DRAMs |
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第4週 |
10/01 |
Lecture:<br>
1. Multiprocessors & Thread-Level Parallelism:Topic (I): Cache Coherency<br>
2. Simulator Tutorial (in Lab 204)
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第5週 |
10/08 |
Lecture:<br>
1. Thread-Level Parallelism <br>
2. Multi-core Architecture |
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第6週 |
10/15 |
<b>Announce project #1: DRAM management in multi-core</b><br>
<font color=blue> Paper Presentation & Discussion</font> (DRAM management in multi-core)<br>
<UL>
<LI>[陳庚佑] Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enhancing both Performance and Fairness of Shared DRAM Systems. ISCA 2008
<LI>[鄒尚軒] Reducing memory interference in multicore systems via application-aware memory channel partitioning, MICRO 2011
<LI>[游舜志] Balancing DRAM Locality and Parallelism in Shared Memory CMP Systems, HPCA 2012
</UL> |
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第7週 |
10/22 |
Lecture:<br>
1. Dynamic Instrcution Scheduling <br>
2. Branch Predictor |
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第8週 |
10/29 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font> (branch predictor)
<UL>
<LI>[簡子翔] An analysis of correlation and predictability: what makes two-level branch predictors work, ISCA 1998
<LI>[鄭人榮] Improving Branch Predictors by Correlating on Data Values, MICRO 1999
<LI>[蔡佩伶] Compiler Controlled Value Prediction using Branch Predictor Based Confidence, MICRO 2000
</UL> |
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第9週 |
11/05 |
<b>Midterm</b> |
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第10週 |
11/12 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font> (Prefetch)
<UL>
<LI>[裴 彧] Dynamic Speculative Precomputation, MICRO 2001
<LI>[洪偉書] Spatial memory streaming, ISCA 2006
<LI>[薛德明] Coordinated Control of Multiple Prefetchers in Multi-Core Systems, MICRO 2009
</UL> |
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第11週 |
11/19 |
Lecture:<br>
1. Heterogenous Computing <br>
2. Low-Power Architecture |
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第12週 |
11/26 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font> (LLC manegment in multi-core)
<UL>
<LI>[陳培基] Victim Replication: Maximizing Capacity while Hiding Wire Delay in Tile CMP Multiprocessors, ISCA 2005
<LI>[蘇嘉冠] Cooperative Caching for Chip Multiprocessors, ISCA 2006
<LI>[唐 杰] Cloudcache: expaning and shrinking private cache, HPCA 2011
</UL> |
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第13週 |
12/03 |
<b>Final project proposal due</b><br>
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font> (on energy-efficient DRAM architecture)
<UL>
<LI>[何建忠] Mini-Rank: Adaptive DRAM Architecture for Improving Memory Power Efficiency, MICRO 2008
<LI>[邱品筑] Rethinking DRAM design and organization for energy-constrained multi-cores. ISCA 2010
<LI>[林映辰] Adaptive Granularity Memory Systems: A Tradeoff between Storage Efficiency and Throughput, ISCA 2011
</UL> |
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第14週 |
12/10 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font> (on Heterogenous Computing)
<UL>
<LI>[梁益銓] Many-Thread Aware Prefetching Mechanisms for GPGPU Applications, MICRO 2010
<LI>[李承軒] TAP: A TLP-Aware Cache Management Policy for a CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Architecture, HPCA 2012
<LI>[蕭建偉] Staged Memory Scheduling: Achieving High Performance and Scalability in Heterogeneous Systems, ISCA 2012
</UL> |
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第15週 |
12/17 |
Lecture:<br>
1. 3D ICs <br>
2. Non-volatile Memory/SSDs |
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第16週 |
12/22 (補課) |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font> (on NVM)
<UL>
<LI>[張育銘] Performance impact and interplay of SSD parallelism through advanced commands, allocation strategy and data granularity, ICS ’11
<LI>[黃冠中] Essential roles of exploiting internal parallelism of Flash memory based solid state drives in high speed data processing, HPCA ’11
<LI>[曾柏憲] FIOS: a fair, efficient Flash I/O scheduler, FAST ’12
</UL> |
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第17週 |
12/24 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font> (on 3D architecture)
<UL>
<LI>[林宗立] An Optimized 3D-Stacked Memory Architecture by Exploiting Excessive High-Density TSV Bandwidth, HPCA '10
<LI>[張志瑋] Efficiently Enabling Conventional Block Sizes for Very Large Die-stacked DRAM Caches, MICRO 2011
<LI>[劉昇龍] A Register-file Approach for Row Buffer Caches in Die-stacked DRAMs, MICRO 2011
</UL> |
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第18週 |
01/07 |
<b>Final project presentation</b> (you will also be asked to turn in a report soon after the presentation.) |