• For project #2, send me the summaries to my email account (c.yu91@csuohio.edu or chansuyu@gmail.com) by Friday, October 21.
• Upload the 3-page report for project #2 to the following website by Friday, October 21.
  • http://www.turnitin.com
  • You have to create a student account (one per team) with the following information: class ID 4469901, last name TeamA~TeamJ
  • The 3-page report must be beyond just an accumulation of summaries. Please do NOT organize your report with, for example, 5 sections with each discussing one paper. Rather, consider to categorize, compare, and/or analyze the suggested solutions.
• Here is the order of presentation for Project #2: October 18 (Tue) - G, H, J, A, B, October 20 (Thr) - C, D, E, F
• Here is the order of presentation for Final Project: December 6 (Tue) - A, B, C, D, December 8 (Thr) - E, F, G, H, J

Midterm #1 on Oct. 6 (Thr)

Midterm #2 on Nov. 10 (Thr)

Final exam during 600-750PM on Dec. 15 (Thr)
Quizzes

Chapter 1 Introduction

• Introduction I
• Introduction II
  

• Machine language
• Datapath and control
• Pipeline
  

• Cache
• Virtual memory
  

• ILP and loop unrolling
• Branch prediction
  
• Dynamic scheduling (Tomasulo Algorithm Example)
• Hardware speculation and VLIW
  

Chapter 3 Limits on Instruction-level Parallelism

• Limits to ILP and SMT
  

Chapter 4 Multiprocessors

• Introduction and Cache coherency
• Interconnection networks and Directory-based Cache Protocol
• Synchronization and Memory Consistency
  

Chapter 5 Memory Hierarchy

• Eleven advanced optimizations of cache performance
• Memory technology and virtual machine
  

Chapter 6 Storage Systems

• RAID and queueing modeling