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| Jan. 10 | L1 Introduction |  |
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| Jan. 15 | MLK - No Lecture | ||||
| L2 Message Passing & Shared Memory |  |
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| Intro to Xeon Phi | |
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| Jan. 22 | L3 Data-Level Parallelism | |
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| L4 GPUs | |
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| Project Introduction | |||||
| Jan. 29 | L5 Synchronization I | |
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| L6 Synchronization II | |
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| Feb. 05 | L7 Transactional Memory | |
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Project Proposal Due | |
| L8 Snooping Coherence | |
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| Paper/Lec Discussion | PA1 Due (2/9) | ||||
| Feb. 12 | L9 Bus-Based SMPs | |
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| L10 More Bus-Based SMPs | |
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| Murphi | |
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| Feb. 19 | L11 Directory-based Coherence | |
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| L12 Coherence Optimizations & COMA | |
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| Mar. 04 | Midterm Exam - 7-9pm in 1010 DOW | |
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| Mar. 11 | L13 Memory Consistency I | |
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| No discussion | PA2 Waypoint (3/15) | ||||
| Mar. 18 | L14 Memory Consistency II | |
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| L15 Relaxed Consistency Contd. | |
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| Mar. 25 | L16 Programming Language MCMs and Speculative MCM Implementations | |
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| L17 Advanced Topics in Coherence and Consistency | |
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| Paper/Lec Discussion | Milestone Meeting | ||||
| Apr. 01 | L18 Interconnects: Intro | |
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| L19 Interconnects: Topology + Routing I | |
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| Apr. 08 | No Lecture | |
PA2 Due (4/8) | ||
| L20 Interconnects: Routing II + Flow Control | |
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| Paper/Lec Discussion | |||||
| Apr. 15 | L21 Interconnects: Router uArch | |
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| L22 Project Presentations (tentative) | |
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| Project Presentations contd. (tentative) | |||||
| Apr. 22 | L23 Project Presentations contd. (tentative) | |
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| May 2 | Final Exam 8-10am |