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Assigned Papers

Write a one-page summary for each of the following papers. Identify the main points and contributions, and provide your opinion about the important issues. Students will take turn presenting some of the listed papers. Each presentation will not exceed 20 minutes.

Data-Parallel Architectures and Algorithms - Due Monday, September 24

• Tucker and Robertson, Architecture and Applications of the Connection Machine, IEEE Computer, August 1988.

• W. Daniel Hillis and Guy L. Steele, Data Parallel Algorithms, Communications of the ACM, December 1986.

Vector Processors - Due Sunday, November 18

• Kozyrakis and Patterson, Scalable Vector Processors for Embedded Systems, IEEE Micro, November-December 2003.

• Krashinsky, Batten, Hampton, Gerding, Pharris, Casper, and Asanovic, The Vector-Thread Architecture, 31st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2004.

Simultaneous Multithreading - Due Sunday, November 18

• Eggers, Emmer, Levy, Lo, Stamm, and Tullsen, Simultaneous Multithreading: A Platform for Next Generation Processors, IEEE Micro, September/October 1997.

• Koufaty and Marr, Hyperthreading Technology in the Netburst Microarchitecture, IEEE Micro, March-April 2003.

Chip Multiprocessors - Due Tuesday, December 9

• Lance Hammond, Ben Hubbert, Michael Siu, Manohar Prabhu, Mike Chen, and Kunle Olukotun, The Stanford Hydra CMP, IEEE Micro, March-April 2000.

• Kongetira, Aingaran, and Olukotun, Niagara: A 32-Way Multithreaded Sparc Processor, IEEE Micro, March-April 2005.

Transactional Memory - Due Sunday, December 9

• Hammond, Wong, Chen, Carlstrom, Davis, Hertzberg, Prabhu, Wijaya, Kozyrakis, and Olukotun, Transactional Memory Coherence and Consistency, 2004.

Interconnect Networks - Due Sunday, December 9

• Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Peter Bannon, Steven Lang, Aaron Spink, and David Webb, The Alpha 21364 Network Architecture, IEEE Micro, January-February 2002.