EE 7700-2 - What's New

16 December 2003, 14:44:15 CST
Linked final exam to the previous work page. A solution may be posted later today.

15 December 2003, 17:50:12 CST
Course Grades Ready!! Steel yourself up and click here.

The exam and a solution will be posted tomorrow. Also, the blinking will be turned off.

15 December 2003, 13:52:16 CST
Final Exam Grades Ready! The grades are slightly less clustered this time. When you're ready, click here.

Course grades should be posted later today. The next grading update will be roughly 17:00 today.

15 December 2003, 11:32:31 CST
Problems 1 and 2 graded. The next grading update will be about 14:00 today.

14 December 2003, 14:32:08 CST
Problem 1 graded. The next grading update will be tomorrow at about 11:00.

14 December 2003, 12:02:16 CST
Grading Update: Grading has started. Exam grades may be available later today, course grades may be available on Monday. The next grading update will be posted about 15:00 today.

11 December 2003, 8:54:45 CST
The maxe lanif (wink, wink) will be in room 117 EE Building (our new semi-plush conference room!) at 15:00 today, Thursday, 11 December 2003.

9 December 2003, 19:04:16 CST
Added additional papers to the references page.

9 December 2003, 17:33:43 CST
Linked Set 7, Critical Path Compression, and final exam review to the lectures pages. This is the radix sort program shown in class today. The papers will be posted later today.

2 December 2003, 17:43:41 CST
Take-Home Exam Grades Ready The highest grade is 79, the second lowest grade is 77. To find your grade click here.

2 December 2003, 16:10:32 CST
Grading Update: Problems 1-3 graded. The grades should be available later today. The next grading update will be posted roughly 18:30 or when grades are ready, whichever is sooner.

2 December 2003, 12:22:14 CST
Grading Update: Problem 1 graded. Exam will be probably graded by late afternoon. The next grading update will be posted at roughly 16:00.

28 November 2003, 13:34:12 CST
Comment on Problem 1: Concentrate on fundamental weaknesses of DGP and pre-execution, not problems due to some arbitrary limit, such as the number of instructions in a pre-execution thread.

27 November 2003, 10:37:44 CST
The Collins paper mentioned in the exam is the one on Dynamic speculative precomputation in the Symposium on Microarchitecture. Happy Thanksgiving!

25 November 2003, 18:44:01 CST
Linked Set 6, Control Independence Exploitation, to the lectures page. Less detailed notes on dataflow compression will be posted (Set 7) after the break.

25 November 2003, 18:13:34 CST
Here is the complete take-home exam. Later tonight some class notes will be posted. Check this page daily for any hints or other potentially life-saving information on the exam.

24 November 2003, 18:51:43 CST
For the first two problems of take-home test follow this link. Some time tomorrow the complete exam will be posted. After that, check back to see if additional information about the exam is posted, such as hints for harder-than-expected problems.

21 November 2003, 14:14:10 CST
Read Annavaram ISCA 2001 for the take-home exam. The exam will be available on Monday. Some, but not necessarily all exam questions will be based on the paper.

12 November 2003, 10:11:47 CST
Added instructions for Homework 3 to the procedures page. Please report any problems as soon as possible.

11 November 2003, 18:48:48 CST
Linked Homework 3 to the previous work page. Some additional instructions will be posted tomorrow morning and class accounts will be distributed in class.

11 November 2003, 18:00:31 CST
Linked procedures page to the course home page. The procedures page has instructions for running Shade and other software needed for the course.

3 November 2003, 18:48:32 CST
Added papers to references page, covering material from multiple branch prediction up to control independence exploitation (the stuff we started today). A few of the papers are restricted.

3 November 2003, 15:25:53 CST
Homework 2 assigned, due Friday, 7 November 2003. An automatic extension will be granted to Monday, 10 November, no further extensions will be granted.

3 November 2003, 14:18:42 CST
Please read the following technical report, the control independence limit study, before Wednesday's class. (A shorter version was published at a conference.) These will be added to the references soon.

The next homework assignment should be posted later today.

22 October 2003, 14:06:23 CDT
Please read this paper on pre-execution before Friday's class. For background on today's lecture see Collins' paper on pre-execution.

15 October 2003, 14:03:35 CDT
Linked data prefetch survey paper to the references page. Please read this paper.

13 October 2003, 18:21:59 CDT
Updated Homework 1, with a link to the second paper. Also mentioned that only Section 5 to 5.2 (inclusive) need be read in detail.

13 October 2003, 12:28:28 CDT
Assigned Homework 1, due 20 October 2003.

6 October 2003, 15:00:23 CDT
Linked next-trace predictor paper to the references page.

22 September 2003, 12:32:17 CDT
Linked Set 3, branch prediction to the lectures page. (Sets 1 and 2 not there yet.) Updated branch prediction papers on references page.

2 September 2003, 12:54:30 CDT
As mentioned on Friday, class will be held in 3141 CEBA from now on.

27 August 2003, 14:30:27 CDT
Added a 2003 entry for the limit paper discussed in class to the references page. Please try to read the paper up to and including Section 3.4 before Friday's class.

25 August 2003, 12:12:55 CDT
Linked lecture Set 0, course introduction, to the lectures page.

20 August 2003, 15:58:05 CDT
Started updated Web pages for Fall 2003 semester.

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