TDT01 is a specialization course focusing on specialized topics within computer architecture. This year's edition will focus on Microarchitecture, Security, and Cloud & accelerators.
Course responsible: Rakesh Kumar and Magnus Själander
Final test 2023
Date: 28th November (Tuesday)
Time: 09:30 to 10:30
Place: 454 IT-Bygget
Students 2023
Arhaug, Marius Harald
Brandtzæg, Ole Peder
Eggen, Marius Stavik
Eggen, Mattias Agentoft
Fagervik, Jørgen Aleksander
Krogstie, Håvard Rognebakke
Legendre, Patrick Øivind Helvik
Llukaj, Said
Mæhlum, Magnus
Nodland, Elias
Sadaqa, Ahmed
Sveinsen, Oskar
Telstø, Njål Brynhildarson
Zambrano Bustos, Andres
Ødegård, Jakob Bleskestad
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 - Thursday, 14th Sep at 13:00, 454 IT-Bygget (Slides)
Meeting 2: Discussion 1 - Friday, 6th Oct, 13:00 - 15:00, 454 IT-Bygget
Meeting 3: Discussion 2 - Friday, 27th Oct, 13:00 - 15:00, 454 IT-Bygget
Meeting 4: Discussion 3 - Thursday, 9th Nov, 13:00 - 15:00, 454 IT-Bygget
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.
Microarchitecture:
1. Complexity-Effective Superscalar Processors (Marius Arhaug) (Slides)
2. Delay and Bypass: Ready and Criticality Aware Instruction Scheduling in Out-of-Order Processors (Njål Telstø) (Slides)
3. A Storage-Effective BTB Organization for Servers (Said Llukaj)
Cloud and accelerators:
4. Profiling a warehouse-scale computer (Mattias Eggen, Marius Stavik Eggen) (Slides)
5. Ten Lessons From Three Generations Shaped Google’s TPUv4i (Jørgen Fagervik, Patrick Helvik Legendre) (Slides)
6. BISDU: A Bit-Serial Dot-Product Unit for Microcontrollers (Ahmed Sadaqa, Magnus Mæhlum) (Slides)
Security:
7. NDA: Preventing Speculative Execution Attacks at Their Source (Andrés Zambrano, Jakob Bleskestad Ødegård)
8. Doppelganger Loads: A Safe, Complexity-Effective Optimization for Secure Speculation Schemes (Elias Nodland, Oskar Sveinsen) (Slides)
9. Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture Based on Ensembles of Moving Target Defenses with Churn (Håvard Krogstie, Ole Peder Brandtzæg) (Slides)