COMP SCI 2CA3/SFWR ENG 3GA3 - Location and Times

Classes (in MDCL 1309 unless noted otherwise)

• Thursday, 10 Sep 09: Introduction, Performance (Sec. 1.1 - 1.4)
• Monday, 14 Sep 09: (no class, will be rescheduled)
• Tuesday, 15 Sep 09: (no class, will be rescheduled)
• Thursday, 17 Sep 09: (no class, will be rescheduled)
• Monday, 21 Sep 09: Performance, Power Wall, Multiprocesors (Sec. 1.4 - 1.10)
• Tuesday, 22 Sep 09: Introduction to MIPS, Binary Numbers (Sec. 2.1 - 2.4.)
• Thursday, 24 Sep 09: Representing Instructions, Logical Instruction (Sec. 2.5 - 2.6)
• Monday, 28 Sep 09: Branch Instructions, Control Structures, Recursion, Stack Organization (Sec. 2.7 - 2.8)
• Tuesday, 29 Sep 09: Character Representation, Immediate Addressing (Sec. 2.9 - 2.11)
• Thursday, 1 Oct 09: Synchronization, Translating and Starting Programs (Sec. 2.11 - 2.12)
• Monday, 5 Oct 09: Putting it all Together, Arrays vs. Pointers (Sec. 2.13 - 2.14)
• Tuesday, 6 Oct 09: ARM, Intel, Conclusions (Sec. 3.15 - 3.19)
• Thursday, 8 Oct 09: Midterm Test 1
• Monday, 12 Oct 09: (Thanksgiving, no class)
• Tuesday, 13 Oct 09: (cancelled)
• Thursday, 15 Oct 09: Integer Arithmetic (Sec. 3.1 - 3.4)
• Monday, 19 Oct 09: Floating-Point Arithmetic (Sec. 3.5)
• Tuesday, 20 Oct 09: Floating-Point Arithmetic, continued
• Thursday, 22 Oct 09: Parallelism and Arithmetic, x86, Conclusions (Sec. 3.6 - 3.9)
• Monday, 26 Oct 09: Processor Design Overview, Logic Design (Sec. 4.1, 4.2)
• Tuesday, 27 Oct 09: Datapath and Implementation (Sec. 4.3, 4.4)
• Thursday, 29 Oct 09: Pipelining (Sec. 4.5)
• Monday, 2 Nov 09: Review: Logic Design (Appendix C)
• Tuesday, 3 Nov 09: Review: Logic Design (Appendix C)
• Thursday, 5 Nov 09: (Midterm Test 2)
• Monday, 9 Nov 09: Review: Logic Design (Appendix C)
• Tuesday, 10 Nov 09: Instruction-Level Parallelism, Conclusions (Sec. 4.10, 4.11, 4.13, 4.14)
• Thursday, 12 Nov 09: Basics of Caches (Sec. 5.1, 5.2)
• Monday, 16 Nov 09: Cache Performance, Virtual Memory (Sec. 5.3, 5.4)
• Tuesday, 17 Nov 09: Momory Hierarchies, Virtual Machines (Sec. 5.5, 5.6)
• Thursday, 19 Nov 09: Cache Coherence, Conclusions (Sec. 5.8, 5.11, 5.12)
• Monday, 23 Nov 09: Introduction to Storage, Dependability, Disk & Flash Storage (Sec. 6.1 - 6.4)
• Tuesday, 24 Nov 09: Connections, Interfacing, Performance, Design (Sec. 6.5 - 6.8)
• Thursday, 26 Nov 09: RAID, Conclusions (Sec. 6.10, 6.12, 6.13)
• Monday, 30 Nov 09: Multicores Introduction (Sec. 7.1, 7.2)
• Tuesday, 1 Dec 09: SMP, Message Passing (Sec. 7.3, 7.4)
• Thursday, 3 Dec 09: Hardware Multithreading, GPU's(Sec. 7.5, 7.6)
• Monday, 7 Dec 09, 14:30-16:20, ITB 137, make up class: Multiprocessor Network Topologies, Benchmarks, Conclusions (Sec. 7.8, 7.9, 7.11 - 7.13)

Tutorials

• T01: Thursdays, 09:30-11:20, T13 105
• T02: Thursdays, 12:30-14:20, BSB B155
• T03: Fridays, 9:30-11:20, T13 105
  
  
• Tutorial 1, Feng Xie, Th 24 Sep / Fr 25 Sep:
  • Answer following questions from Chapter 1 of Patterson & Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 4^th Edition, 2009.
  • Exercise 1.5
  • Exercise 1.6
  • Exercise 1.9
  • Exercise 1.10
  • Exercise 1.13
  • Exercise 1.14
  • Exercise 1.16
• Tutorial 2, Xiaoxi Ma, Th 1 Oct / Fr 2 Oct:
  • Answer following questions from Chapter 2 of Patterson & Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 4^th Edition, 2009.
  • Exercise 2.1
  • Exercise 2.6
  • Exercise 2.7
  • Exercise 2.11
  • Exercise 2.16
  • Exercise 2.18
  • Exercise 2.21
  • Exercise 2.24
  • Exercise 2.30
• Tutorial 3, Feng Xie, Th 15 Oct / Fr 16 Oct:
  • Discussion of M1
  • Help with A1
• Tutorial 4, Xiaoxi Ma, Th 29 Oct / Fr 30 Oct:
  • Answer following questions from Chapter 2 of Patterson & Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 4^th Edition, 2009.
  • Exercise 3.1
  • Exercise 3.5
  • Exercise 3.11
  • Exercise 3.15
• Tutorial 5, Feng Xie, Th 12 Nov / Fr 13 Nov:
  • Answer following questions from Chapter 2 of Patterson & Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 4^th Edition, 2009.
  • Exercise 4.5: corrected solution
  • Exercise 4.14
  • Exercise 4.30
  • Exercise 4.31 (optional)
  • Exercise 4.33
• Tutorial 6, Xiaoxi Ma, Th 26 Nov / Fr 27 Nov:
  • Answer following questions from Chapter 2 of Patterson & Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 4^th Edition, 2009.
  • Exercise 5.8
  • Exercise 5.17
  • Exercise 6.3
  • Exercise 6.10

Midterm Tests

• Test 1, Thursday, 8 October 09, 15:30, 50 min, closed book
  • SFWR ENG 3GA3: T29 105
  • COMP SCI 2CA3: Ref 102
• Test 2, Thursday, 5 November 09, 15:30, 50 min, closed book
  • SFWR ENG 3GA3: T29 105
  • COMP SCI 2CA3: Ref 102

Final Exam

• Closed book, 3 hours
• Thursday, 10 December 09. See the pages of the Office of the Registrar for details.