EE282 Computer Systems Architecture

Lecture Notes

L01 Introduction (1pp, 4pp)
L02 Statistics for architects (1pp, 4pp)
L03 Advanced caching 1 (1pp, 4pp)
L04 Advanced caching 2 (1pp, 4pp)
L05 Main memory technology (1pp, 4pp)
L06 Software optimizations for memory (1pp, 4pp)
L07 Advanced I/O systems (1pp, 4pp)
L08 System software support (1pp, 4pp)
L09 Parallel Computers (1pp, 4pp)
L10 Cluster hardware (1pp, 4pp)
L11 Cluster programming with MapReduce (1pp, 4pp)
L12 Cluster software (1pp, 4pp)
L13 Virtual machines (1pp, 4pp)
L14 Message Passing Programming (1pp, 4pp)
L15 Reliability 1 (1pp, 4pp)
L16 Reliability 2 (1pp, 4pp)
L17 Energy efficiency 1 (1pp, 4pp)
L18 Energy efficiency 2 (1pp)
L19 Class summary (1pp, 4pp)

Review Notes

Review Sessions

D01 Processor microarchitecture overview (1pp, 4pp)
D02 Programming assignment 1 (1pp, 4pp)
D03 Quiz 1 (1pp, 4pp)
D04 Programming assignment 2 (1pp, 4pp)
D05 Quiz 2 (1pp, 4pp)

Papers (R = required, O = optional)

[O, General] "Technology & Courage", Ivan Sutherland, April 1996.
[O, General] "You and Your Research", Richard Hamming, March 1986.
[O, Lecture 1] "Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering," Jim Gray, Prashant Shenoy, March 2000.
[O, Lecture 2] "War of Benchmark Means: Time for a Truce," John Mashey, September 2004.
[O, Review 1] "The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors", Jim Smith, Guri Sohi, December 1995.
[O, Lecture 5] "A Case for Studying DRAM Issues at the System Level", Bruce Jacob, July-August 2003.
[O, Lecture 5] "Evolving PC Chip-Set Topologies", Don Alpert, April 2006.
[O, Lecture 5] "High-Performance DRAMs in Workstation Environments", Vinodh Cuppu, Bruce Jacob, November 2001.
[R, Lecture 7] "TCP Onloading for Data Center Servers", Greg Regnier et al, November 2004.
[O, Lecture 10] "Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture", Luiz Andre Barroso, Jeffrey Dean, Urs Holzle, March-April 2003.
[R, Lecture 11] "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters", Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, 2004.
[O, Lecture 13] "Virtual Machine Monitors: Current Technology and Future Trends", Mendel Rosenblum, Tal Garfinkel, May 2005.
[O, Lecture 14] "Message Passing Interface"
[R, Lecture 16] "Robust System Design with Built-In Soft-Error Resilience", Subhasish Mitra, et al, February 2005.
[R, Lecture 17] "Power: A First-Class Architectural Design Constraint", Trevor Mudge, 2001.
[O, Lecture 17] "Leakage Current: Moore's Law Meets Static Power", Nam Sung Kim, 2003.

Online Appendices of the Textbook: D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K

Sample Quizzes

Quiz Solutions