Welcome to the Spring 2011 CS152 web page. The course is intended to provide a foundation for students interested in performance programming, compilers, and operating systems, as well as computer architecture and engineering. Our goal is for you to better understand how software interacts with hardware, and to understand how trends in technology, applications, and economics drive continuing changes in the field. The course will cover the different forms of parallelism found in applications (instruction-level, data-level, thread-level, gate-level) and how these can be exploited with various architectural features. We will also explore the design of memory systems including caches, virtual memory, and DRAM. An important part of the course is a series of lab assignments using commercial simulation tools to evaluate and develop architectural ideas while running real applications and operating systems.
Extra course materials
Week | Date | Lecture | Readings | Assignments |
1 | Wed Jan 19 | L1: Introduction, Early Machines PPTX PDF | ||
Fri Jan 21 | No section | |||
2 | Mon Jan 24 | L2: Simple Machine Implementations, Microcoding PPTX PDF | Ch. 1, App. B | |
Wed Jan 26 | L3: From CISC to RISC PPTX PDF | PS 1 ZIP tar.gz Lab 1 PDF ZIP tar.gz | ||
Fri Jan 28 | Section 1: Introduction to Simics simulator and Lab 1 Overview PDF | |||
3 | Mon Jan 31 | L4: Pipelining PPTX PDF | A.1-A.3 | |
Wed Feb 2 | L5: Pipelining II PPTX PDF | A.4 | ||
Fri Feb 4 | Section 2: Pipelining review PDF | |||
4 | Mon Feb 7 | L6: Memory Hierarchy PPTX PDF | C.1-C.3 | |
Wed Feb 9 | L7: Memory Hierarchy II PPTX PDF | PS 1 due, Lab 1 due | ||
Fri Feb 11 | Section 3: PS 1 Review PDF | PS 1 solutions PDF | ||
5 | Mon Feb 14 | Quiz 1: ISAs, microcode, simple pipelines Solutions: PDF | ||
Wed Feb 16 | L8: Address Translation and Protection PPTX PDF | C.4-C.8 | PS 2 PDF Handout PDF Lab 2 PDF ZIP tar.gz | |
Fri Feb 18 | Section 4: Lab 2 overview PDF | |||
6 | Mon Feb 21 | President's Day Holiday | No Office Hours | |
Wed Feb 23 | L9: Virtual Memory PPTX PDF | |||
Fri Feb 25 | Section 5: Memory Hierarchy review PDF Handout PDF Sols PDF | |||
7 | Mon Feb 28 | L10: Complex pipelines, out-of-order issue, register renaming PPTX PDF | A.5-A.8 | |
Wed Mar 2 | L11: Out-of-order exceptions, branch prediction PPTX PDF | Ch 2 | PS 2 due, Lab 2 due | |
Fri Mar 4 | Section 6: PS 2 Review PDF | PS 2 solutions PDF | ||
8 | Mon Mar 7 |
Quiz 2: Memory Hierarchies and Virtual Memory Solutions: PDF |
PS 3 PDF Lab 3 PDF ZIP tar.gz | |
Wed Mar 9 | L12: Advanced Out-of-Order Superscalars PPTX PDF | Ch. 3.1-3.4 | ||
Fri Mar 11 | Section 7: Lab 3 Overview, and complex pipeline review PDF | |||
9 | Mon Mar 14 | L13: VLIW PPTX PDF | App. G | |
Wed Mar 16 | L14: Multithreading PPTX PDF | Ch 3.5-3.9 | PS 3 due, Lab 3 due | |
Fri Mar 18 | Section 8: PS 3 Review PDF |
PS 3 solutions
PDF |
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10 | Mar 21-25 | Spring Break | ||
11 | Mon Mar 28 |
Quiz 3: Complex Pipelining
Solutions: PDF |
PS 4
DOC PDF
Lab 4 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Wed Mar 30 | L15: Vectors PPTX PDF | Draft of 5th edition Chapter 4 | ||
Fri Apr 1 | Section 9: Lab 4 Overview PDF | |||
12 | Mon Apr 4 | L16: GPUs PPTX PDF | ||
Wed Apr 6 | L17: Synchronization and Sequential Consistency PPTX PDF | Ch 4.5-4.6 | PS 4 due, Lab 4 due | |
Fri Apr 8 | Section 10: PS 4 Review PDF | PS 4 solutions DOC PDF | ||
13 | Mon Apr 11 |
Quiz 4: VLIW, Vectors, Multithreading
Solutions: PDF |
PS 5
PDF
ZIP
Lab 5
PDF
ZIP
tar.gz |
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Wed Apr 13 | L18: Snoopy Caches PPTX PDF | Ch 4.1-4.4 | ||
Fri Apr 15 | Section 11: Lab 5 Overview | |||
14 | Mon Apr 18 | L19: Directory Protocols PPTX PDF | ||
Wed Apr 20 | L20: Putting it all Together: Intel Sandy Bridge & AMD Bulldozer | |||
Fri Apr 22 | Section 12: PS 5 Review PDF |
PS 5 due, Lab 5 due
PS 5 solutions PDF |
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15 | Mon Apr 25 | L21: Virtual Machines | ||
Wed Apr 27 | Quiz 5: Parallel Architectures |