TDT01 - Architecture for Computing Systems 2022

TDT01 is a specialization course focusing on specialized topics within computer architecture. This year's edition will focus on GPU, Microarchitecture, and Evaluation.

Course responsible: Magnus Själander and Magnus Jahre

Final test 2022

Wednesday 30. November 0900 - 1000 in F2

Students 2022

    If you are not on this list, but intend to follow TDT01 you need to contact Magnus J ASAP.

Meetings (Date, time, and venue)

    Meeting 1: Startup meeting - 5/9-22, 1400-1430, ITV-454 (Slides)

    Meeting 2: Discussion 1 - 26/9-22, 1300-1430, ITV-454 (Topic: GPU)

    Meeting 3: Discussion 2 - 10/10-22, 1300-1430, ITV-454 (Topic: Microarchitecture)

    Meeting 4: Discussion 3 - 7/11-22, 1300-1430, ITV-454 (Topic: Evaluation)

Reading list (preliminary)

Note: To access the full versions 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.

GPU (Resp: Magnus J):

1. Get out of the valley: Power-efficient address mapping for GPUs (Halvor)

2. HSM: A Hybrid Slowdown Model for Multitasking GPUs (John and Hans Erik)

3. Delegated Replies: Alleviating Network Clogging in Heterogeneous Architectures (Lars)

Microarchitecture (Resp: Magnus S):

4. The load slice core microarchitecture (Eirik and Jon)

5. Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data (Vetle and Håkon)

6. Complexity-Effective Superscalar Processors (Jonas and Lisa)

Evaluation (Resp: Magnus J):

7. FireSim: FPGA-Accelerated Cycle-Exact Scale-OutSystem Simulation in the Public Cloud (Erling)

8. TIP: Time-Proportional Instruction Profiling (Ludvig)

9. Sniper: Exploring the level of abstraction for scalable and accurate parallel multi-core simulation (Henrik and Marcus)