Computer Architecture Reading Group

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Here’s the schedule for the current semester, Fall 2019. We meet every Monday in Rhodes 471E at 11am. You can also see archived semesters.

• September 9: Organization
  led by Sachille

  Selecting papers for the semester.

• September 16: Architecture performance
  led by Sachille

  Discerning the dominant out-of-order performance advantage: is it speculation or dynamism?, Daniel S. McFarlin, Charles Tucker and Craig Zilles, ASPLOS 2013.

• September 23: CGRAs
  led by Peitian

  Plasticine: A reconfigurable architecture for parallel patterns, Raghu Prabhakar, Yaqi Zhang, David Koeplinger, Matt Feldman, Tian Zhao, Stefan Hadjis, Ardavan Pedram, Christos Kozyrakis and Kunle Olukotun, ISCA 2017.

• September 30: GPUs
  led by Tuan

  CORF: Coalescing Operand Register File for GPUs, Hodjat Asghari Esfeden, Farzad Khorasani, Hyeran Jeon, Daniel Wong and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, ASPLOS 2019.

• October 7: Accelerators
  led by Helena

  Q100: The Architecture and Design of a Database Processing Unit, Lisa Wu, Andrea Lottarini, Timothy K. Paine, Martha A. Kim and Kenneth A. Ross, ASPLOS 2014.

• October 14: Fall break
  led by
• October 21: Cloud
  led by Yi

  TPShare: A Time-Space Sharing Scheduling Abstraction for Shared Cloud via Vertical Labels, Yuzhao Wang, Lele Li, You Wu, Junqing Yu, Zhibin Yu and Xuehai Qian, ISCA 2019.

• October 28: Verification
  led by Debjit

  Automated, compositional and iterative deadlock detection, Sagar Chaki, Edmund Clarke, Joe ̈l Ouaknine and Natasha Sharygina, MEMOCODE 2004. Alternative link

• November 4: Soft control and power
  led by Steven

  An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots, Michael Wehner, Ryan L. Truby, Daniel J. Fitzgerald, Bobak Mosadegh, George M. Whitesides, Jennifer A. Lewis & Robert J. Wood, Nature 2016.

• November 11: Machine learning
  led by Neil

  Eager Pruning: Algorithm and Architecture Support for Fast Training of Deep Neural Networks, Jiaqi Zhang, Xiangru Chen, Mingcong Song and Tao Li, ISCA 2019.

• November 18: No Meeting
  led by
• November 25: No Meeting
  led by
• December 2: DSLs
  led by Nitish & Sachille

  Domain-specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell, Andy Gill, ACM-Queue 2014.

• December 9: TBD
  led by