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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 Algorithms - Due Monday, September 26

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

• Presentation by Muhammad Mohsin Butt

Niagara - Due Monday, October 3

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

• Presentation by Mohamed Mohamed

Memory Models - Due Monday, October 10

• S. Adve and H. Boehm, Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware, Communications of the ACM, August 2010.

• Presentation by Ahmad Hammad

Many Core Caches - Due Monday, October 24

• Hughes, Kim, and Chen, "Performance and Energy Implications of Many-Core Caches for Throughput Computing, IEEE Micro, 2010

• Presentation by Hamza Salami

Transactional Memory - Due Monday, November 28

• Hammond, Carlstrom, Wong, Chen, Kozyrakis, and Olukotun, Transactional Coherence and Consistency: Simplifying Parallel Hardware and Software, IEEE Micro, 2004.

• Presentation by Muhammad Mohsin Butt

Vector Processors - Due Saturday, December 3

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

• Presentation by Mohamed Mohamed

GPU Computing Architecture - Due Saturday, December 3

• Glaskowsky, NVIDIA's Fermi: The First Complete GPU Computing Architecture, white paper, 2009

• Presentation by Ahmad Hammad

Interconnect Networks - Due Monday, December 5

• Wentzlaff et al., On-Chip Interconnection Architecture of the Tile Processor, IEEE Micro, 2007

• Presentation by Hamza Salami