TDT01 is a specialization course focusing on specialized topics within computer architecture. This year's edition will focus on 1) Server CPU Microarchitecture, 2) Sustainability and Performance Analysis, and 3) Hardware generation and compilers.
Course responsible: Magnus Själander, Magnus Jahre, and Rakesh Kumar
Students 2024
Bjerde, Juni Weisteen
Gabriel, Arran Øystein Kostveit
Gynnild, Odd Magne Lundereng
Harmati, Kornel
Johansen, Markus Bøyum
Jaatun, Lars Andreassen
Kuklinski, Patryk
Larsen, Kristian
Lundsaunet, Børge
Løvhaug, Henrik Tøn
Mack, Stefan
Ostrzolek, Jakub Jan
Røgeberg, Eik Hvattum
Shahzad-Landsverk, Benjamin
Skaaden, Erlend Paulsen
Solheim, Jonatan
Sygard, Magnus Øvre
Tenstad, Magne Erlendsønn
Ørn, Filip Kristoff
Øverås, Hans-Marius
If you are not on this list, but intend to follow TDT01 you need to contact Rakesh ASAP.
Meetings (Date, time, and venue)
Meeting 1: Startup meeting - Friday, 13th September at 14:00, Realfagbygget R93 (Slides)
Meeting 2: Discussion 1 - Friday, 4th October at 14:00, Realfagbygget R93
Meeting 3: Discussion 2 - Friday, 25th October at 14:00, Realfagbygget R93
Meeting 4: Discussion 3 - Friday, 15th November at 14:00, Realfagbygget R93
Reading list (preliminary)
Note: To access the full versions of some of the papers from IEEE and ACM you need to have an NTNU IP address. If you are not on campus, try VPN or a terminal server.
Server CPU Microarchitecture
1. Profiling a warehouse-scale computer
2. Weeding out Front-End Stalls with Uneven Block Size Instruction Cache
3. ACIC: Admission-Controlled Instruction Cache
Sustainability and Performance Analysis
4. FOCAL: A First-Order Carbon Model to Assess Processor Sustainability
5. Per-Instruction Cycle Stacks Through Time-Proportional Event Analysis
6. AIO: An Abstraction for Performance Analysis Across Diverse Accelerator Architectures
Hardware generation and compilers
7. RipTide: A Programmable, Energy-Minimal Dataflow Compiler and Architecture (Recommended for a group with three students)