EE 7700-4 Computer Arch. and Implementation - What's New

8 December 1998, 17:38:57 CST
Final exam and course grades ready. When you're prepared click here.

8 December 1998, 9:59:20 CST
Linked final exam to previous work page. Exam and course grades should be available by tomorrow, possibly earlier.

6 December 1998, 9:45:53 CST
Changed practice final exam problem 3, fragment 1 (page 4, order of stores at processor 2 reversed). Without change fragment execution would be sequentially consistent (and so old solution was wrong). Problem pointed out in a student question.

4 December 1998, 17:45:26 CST
Linked solution to practice final (except problem 2) to previous work page.

4 December 1998, 14:51:24 CST
Added some material to Set 6 slides on lectures page. Practice exam solution will be posted later today.

3 December 1998, 15:43:43 CST
Linked practice final exam to previous work page.

2 December 1998, 15:19:33 CST
Added final exam study guidlines and time and place to study guidelines page.

25 November 1998, 15:31:55 CST
Added additional material on vector processors to set 6 linked to lectures page. Final exam is Monday, 7 December at 15:00 (3pm) CST

24 November 1998, 14:32:16 CST
Added Dekker's Algorithm example to Set 5. Linked Set 6 to lectures page.

18 November 1998, 15:19:11 CST
Linked Set 5 lecture slides to lectures page.

18 November 1998, 15:07:21 CST
Linked homework 4, due 17:00 25 November, to previous work page.

6 November 1998, 16:42:26 CST
Added a longer solution to midterm exam problem 3d.

5 November 1998, 18:06:32 CST
Linked complete solution to midterm to previous work page.

5 November 1998, 14:58:46 CST
Midterm exams graded. The grade distribution is on the click here page but because too few aliases were submitted individual grades are not posted.

4 November 1998, 20:47:47 CST
Added references for Tera to references pages.

3 November 1998, 21:08:35 CST
Linked midterm exam and solution to short-answer questions to previous work page.

28 October 1998, 12:15:54 CST
Linked solution to practice exam to previous work page. Also fixed minor problems with exam.

23 October 1998, 19:02:50 CDT
Linked a study guidelines page to the course home page.

19 October 1998, 16:10:39 CDT
Added references for multithreaded processors to references page. Added outline (not yet complete) for multithreaded processors to lectures page.

16 October 1998, 14:00:22 CDT
Linked practice exam to previous work page. Exam is 3 November 1998, 18:00 (6 pm) CST, room to be determined.

8 October 1998, 15:36:15 CDT
Added trace processor papers to references page.

28 September 1998, 16:29:03 CDT
Added references on load/store material to references page and to outline in set 3 linked to lectures page.

28 September 1998, 14:05:04 CDT
Homework 3 linked to previous work page. Due 9 October.

21 September 1998, 16:51:47 CDT
Linked partial Set 3 slides (may be finished later) to lectures page. Added some references to references page.

19 September 1998, 15:24:08 CDT
Added material on confidence estimation and data prediction to lecture set 2 (see lectures page) and references.

14 September 1998, 10:20:02 CDT
Added references for branch prediction to references page and linked lecture set 2, branch prediction, to lectures page. Some material might be added to lecture set 2.

11 September 1998, 14:41:45 CDT
Deadline for homework 2 extended to Wednesday, 16 September.

4 September 1998, 11:02:48 CDT
Linked references on branch prediction to references page. Payment or subscription required to view some papers; those will be lent (free of charge). Linked homework 2 to previous work page. Due Monday, 14 September.

31 August 1998, 8:48:05 CDT
Fixed link to MIPS R10000 paper on references page.

29 August 1998, 14:50:02 CDT
Added links for MIPS R10000 and continuous profiling (sampling) papers to references page. MIPS paper is free but requires ECE Solaris filesystem access. A fee is charged for access to the text of the continuous profiling paper but it is also available in the library for free.

27 August 1998, 8:48:37 CDT
Made minor changes to procedures, and added a list of recommended skills.

26 August 1998, 14:00:33 CDT
Made minor change to hw 1, problem 0, new text: ...netscape (Communicator) 2.997%

21 August 1998, 19:28:34 CDT
Linked homework 1 to previous work page. Added links for some documentation to references page.

21 August 1998, 14:11:29 CDT
Linked reference for review paper to references page.

21 August 1998, 10:37:58 CDT
Linked lectures page to course home page. (Yesterday the notes were posted to the lectures page without linking that page to the course home page.) Linked a references page containing references for the lectures to the course home page.

20 August 1998, 18:29:27 CDT
Linked lecture set zero and one to lectures page.

19 August 1998, 9:33:46 CDT
Added a "Should I take this course?" question to the FAQ page.

17 August 1998, 14:06:38 CDT
Updated syllabus with new topics and home page with room.

21 April 1998, 10:58:00 CDT
Course number, call number and time available. (See home page.).

3 April 1998, 19:50:19 CST
Set up web pages for this course.