Schedule of Lectures + Labs

Printouts of all core material slides/notes will be provided in-class.

If appropriate, Use the template (Powerpoint or OpenOffice) to prepare the slides that will be used in the presentations and discussions. The slides need to be emailed before 14:00 on Thursdays so that we can bring the printouts.

	Topics	Core Material	Supporting material
Friday 9th Nov 2018
09.00-12.30	Motivation Caches Cache Coherence Interconnection		Videos Chip manufacturing process 45nm and 32nm Sand to Silicon Chip Intel Fab Are multicore processors here to stay? Kilburn Lecture 2008 Computer architecture is back Links What every programmer should know about memory Cache write policies and performance A cache primer A web caching primer The free lunch is over The case for a single-chip multiprocessor The future of microprocessors The price of performance Spending Moore's dividend TR Talk
13.30-14.30	Synchronization		Links Software and the concurrency revolution Extreme Software Scaling An OS perspective Real-world concurrency
14.30-15.45	Current multi-core systems and trends		Videos Intel Nehalem AMD Shanghai TI OMAP4 Intel QuickPath Architecture AMD Software Optimization Intel Turbo Boost Technology IBM Power6 & wafer Azul's Vega processor and JVM (Java on a 1000 cores) Links UltraSPARC T1 (or Niagara IEEE Micro 2005) Specs UltraSPARC T2 Specs & Related paper AMD Opteron IEEE Micro papers 2003 & 2007 AMD Barcelona talk 2007 2008 AMD Larger L3 in Shanghai AMD Shared L3 in Barcelona Hypertransport & White papers AMD NUMA & Hypertransport Intel Nehalem website & white paper IDF talk on Nehalem Intel QuickPath Interconnect white paper Intel Turbo Boost Technolgy white paper Reports on AMD Barcelona & Intel Nehalem ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore website, white paper & talk IBM Power6
16.00-18.00	Lab session 0: Java Threads		Individual Work Submit by email before 9.00am on 16/Nov
Friday 16th Nov 2018
9:00-9:30	Q&A
10.00-13.00	Simultaneous MultiThreading or SMT Lab 0 feedback Java Concurrency Tutorial	Paper SMT Tutorial	Links Wikipedia SMT entry Intel Hyperthreading paper Wikipedia cache coherence entry 1990 Survey of cache coherence Gupta et al. ICPP 1990 Doug Lea's webpage Effective Java Chapter 9 Videos Java Memory Model talk
14.00-18.00	Lab session 1: Java Threads, Locks & Monitors.		Group work Submit report by email before 9.00am on 23/Nov
Friday 23rd Nov 2018
9:00-9:30	Q&A
10.00-13.00	Lock-Free Algorithms Cilk-5 (work stealing scheduling) MapReduce Directory	Paper Herlihy 93 Paper Cilk-5 SGI Origin 1997 MapReduce OSDI	Links Introduction to nonblocking algorithms Wikipedia Non-blocking synchronization Scalable synchronization paper Obstruction-free paper Wikipedia entry for MapReduce Hadoop webpage and tutorial MapReduce paper in CACM Jeffrey Dean webpage Google Cluster Architecture The Datacenter as a Computer Videos Using Map-Reduce Google RoundTable MapReduce Google MapReduce Tutorial Google MapReduce in a Week
14.00-17.00	Lab session 2: java.util.concurrent		Group work Submit report by email before 9.00am on 30/Nov
Friday 30th Nov 2018
9:00-9:30	Q&A
10.00-13.00	Transactional Memory	Paper TCC Paper TL2 Paper HyTM Paper Phasers	Links Intro to Transactional Memory Beautiful Concurrency Review Intel C++ TM and related paper Bibliography GCC branch for TM and related paper IBM XL C/C++ TM Microsoft TM team blog Tradeoffs in Thread Level Speculation paper Videos Moir's talk (Sun Microsystems) Harris & Peyton-Jones talk (Microsoft Research) Welc's talk (Intel Research) Menon's talk (Google) STM in Microsoft
14.00-18.00	Lab session 3: mini-project		Individual work
Friday 7th Dec 2018
9:00-9:30	Q&A
10.00-13.00	GPGPUs Hardware and Software Virtualization (VMM or Hypervisor)		Links Intro to GPUs GPGPU website CUDA website NVidia Fermi website and whitepaper AMD Fusion Wikipedia entry for Virtual Machine Wikipedia entry for Hypervisor The architecture of virtual machines VMM trend paper Xen and the art of virtualization Sun xVM, VirtualBox, Solaris Containers (or Zones) and Crossbow. ARM virtualization AMD virtualization Intel virtualization AMD virtualization in ASPLOS 2008 Intel virtualization in Computer 2005 and Intel journal 2006 VMware technical paper on AMD and Intel Wikipedia entry for MapReduce Hadoop webpage and tutorial MapReduce paper in CACM Jeffrey Dean webpage Google Cluster Architecture The Datacenter as a Computer Video Fusion intro CUDA and Tesla intro Introduction to GPU Computing NVidia Lecture by John Nickolls Intel Larrabee SIGGRAPH 2008 AMD virtualization ASPLOS 2008 AMD virtualization VMware virtualization 101 and Fusion Intel software network (part 1, 2, 3 and 4) on virtualization introduction and others Intel channel on virtualization (overview and part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Xen 3.0 talk by Steve Hand Sun virtualization
14.00-18.00	Lab session 3: mini-project		Individual work
Sunday 16th Dec 2018
23.59	Deadline for submitting mini-project report