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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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第1週 |
9/10 |
Course introduction |
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第2週 |
9/17 |
<b>[Lecture]</b></br> Basics of Computer Architecture Design |
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第3週 |
9/24 |
<b>[Lecture]</b></br>
Memory Hierarchy: Cache Architecture |
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第4週 |
10/01 |
<b>[Lecture]</b></br>
Memory Hierarchy: Cache & DRAM Architecture </br>
Thread-Level Parallelism Topic (I): Cache Coherency |
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第5週 |
10/08 |
<b>[Lecture]</b></br>
Introduction to DRAM Memory Systems and the USIMM Simulation Framework</br>
<b>[Homework]</b></br>
Announce simulator HW #1 (Simulator exercise). Due on 10/22. |
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第6週 |
10/15 |
<b>[Lecture]</b></br>
Parallel architecture (part II) : Thread-Level Parallelism/Multi-core Architecture |
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第7週 |
10/22 |
<font color=blue>
Paper Presentation & Discussion</font></br>
DRAM management in multi-core
<UL>
<LI>[王少甫] Improving Memory Scheduling via Processor-Side Load Criticality Information (ISCA 2013)
<LI>[孫紹先] MISE: Providing Performance Predictability and Improving Fairness in Shared Main Memory Systems (HPCA 2013)
<LI>[許貴松] Balancing DRAM Locality and Parallelism in Shared Memory CMP Systems (HPCA 2012)
</UL>
<b>[Homework]</b></br>
Announce simulator HW #2 (Scheduling policy implementation). Individual homework. Due on 11/12.</br>
<b>[Term Project]</b></br>
Announce term project (Memory scheduling competition). Two students in a team. |
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第8週 |
10/29 |
<b>[Lecture]</b></br>
Dynamic Instrcution Scheduling/ Branch Predictor |
|
第9週 |
11/05 |
<font color=red><b>期中考</b></font> |
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第10週 |
11/12 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font></br>
on LLC management in multi-core
<UL>
<LI>[吳佳倫] Technology Comparison for Large Last-Level Caches (L3Cs): Low-Leakage SRAM, Low Write-Energy STT-RAM, and Refresh-Optimized eDRAM (HPCA 2013)
<LI>[鄭期文] A Hardware Evaluation of Cache Partitioning to Improve Utilization and Energy-Efficiency while Preserving Responsiveness (ISCA 2013)
</UL> |
|
第11週 |
11/19 |
<b>[Lecture]</b></br>
Data-level Parallelislm /Warehouse Computing |
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第12週 |
11/26 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font></br>
on Heterogenous Computing
<UL>
<LI>[吳柄璇] Cache Coherence for GPU Architectures(HPCA 2013)
<LI>[陳年麒] An Energy Efficient and Scalable eDRAM-Based Register File Architecture for GPGPU (ISCA 2013)
<LI>[林世傑] A Locality-Aware Memory Hierarchy for Energy-Efficient GPU Architectures. (MICRO 2012)
</UL> |
|
第13週 |
12/03 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font></br> on Warehouse Computing
<UL>
<LI>[黃瀚生] Thin Servers with Smart Pipes: Designing SoC Accelerators for Memcached (ISCA 2013)
<LI>[呂建明] LINQits: Big Data on Little Clients (ISCA 2013)
</UL> |
|
第14週 |
12/10 |
<font color=red>Project Discussion</font> (Individual meetings with professor) |
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第15週 |
12/17 |
<b>[Lecture]</b></br>
3D ICs / Non-volatile Memory |
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第16週 |
12/24 |
<font color=blue>Paper Presentation & Discussion</font></br>
on 3D/IC & NVM
<UL>
<LI>[李爭原] Die-Stacked DRAM Caches for Servers: Hit Ratio, Latency, or Bandwidth? Have It All with Footprint Cache (ISCA 2013)
<LI>[莊凱翔] AC-DIMM: Associative Computing with STT-MRAM (ISCA 2013)
<LI>[余俊璋] Disintegrated Control for Energy-Efficient and Heterogeneous Memory Systems(HPCA 2013)
</UL> |
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第17週 |
12/31 |
<font color=red>Project Presentation</font> |
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第18週 |
1/7 |
<font color=red><b>期末考</b></font> |