Lecture Schedule

W	L	Date	Topic	Required Reading	Suggested Reading	Note
1	1	2012-08-20	Course policies, motivation	Chapter 1	References at the end of lecture notes	Notes
	2	2012-08-22	Hardware and architecture basics	Chapter 1	Appendix A	Notes
2	3	2012-08-27	Introduction to memory hierarchy	Appendix B		Notes
	4	2012-08-29
3		2012-09-03	Labor Day (no lecture)
	5	2012-09-05	Advanced cache optimizations	Chapter 2		Notes
4	6	2012-09-10
	7	2012-09-12
5	8	2012-09-17	Pipelining	Appendix C		Notes
	9	2012-09-19
6	10	2012-09-24
	11	2012-09-26
7	12	2012-10-01	ILP	Chapter 3	Appendix H	Notes
	13	2012-10-03
8	14	2012-10-08
	15	2012-10-10
9		2012-10-15	Midterm exam (in class during regular lecture hours)
	16	2012-10-17	ILP Limits	Chapter 4		Notes
10	17	2012-10-22
	18	2012-10-24	Vector processors and GPUs	Chapter 4	Appendix G	Notes
11	19	2012-10-29
	20	2012-10-31
12	21	2012-11-05	Automatic parallelization			Notes (press t to toggle between slides and notes)
	22	2012-11-07
13	23	2012-11-12
	24	2012-11-14
14		2012-11-19	Thanksgiving break (no lecture)
		2012-11-21	Thanksgiving break (no lecture)
15	25	2012-11-26	Multiprocessors and multithreading	Chapter 5	Memory consistency paper	Notes
	26	2012-11-28
16	27	2012-12-03
		2012-12-05	Student project presentations

Unless noted otherwise, chapter and section numbers refer to the chapters and sections from the textbook.