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Mini-Projects

CS 433

Spring 2008

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Mini-Project Assignment

You are to prepare a presentation on

one

of the following features of

one

of

the following systems (I2CS students: see last slide for alternatives) F

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Features:

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Processor core microarchitecture

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Memory hierarchyMemory hierarchy

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Multicore or thread-level parallelism support

Systems/processors:

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AMD Opteron

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Intel Core 2

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IBM Power

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Sun UltraSPARC T2 (only for multicore)

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Any contemporary system with prior permission from Prof Adve

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Any contemporary system with prior permission from Prof. Adve

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Mini-Project Procedures and Schedule (2 of 2)

Step 2 (90% of grade): Presentations

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Each topic will have three presentations in class – one per group^ −

Dates: For processor core: 2/28/08 For memory hierarchy: 3/25/08Dates:

For processor core: 2/28/08. For memory hierarchy: 3/25/08.

For multicore: 4/24 or 4/29 (to be finalized later).

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Each presentation should be 25 minutes total, including roughly 10minutes of discussionminutes of discussion

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All members of the group must present and all will get the same grade

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Focus on key points related to the topic

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.g., do not discuss memory hierarchy or thread-level parallelism for the processor core topic

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Assume everyone has attended lectures; e.g., do not spend time

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Email final presentation to both TAs by 1:55pm the day of presentation,cc all group members

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Alternatives for I2CS Students

Alternative to presentation for I2CS students

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Choose a

single

feature (processor core, memory, multicore) and

two

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processors/systems

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Write a document containing the following^ −

Describe how your chosen feature is implemented in your chosenDescribe

how your chosen feature is implemented in your chosen

systems −

Describe the key ways in which the two implementations differ −

Describe the pros and cons for both implementations [Note that the above is slightly different from the course information

handout]handout]

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Email document to both TAs by

1:55pm Illinois time the day

presentations are due

for other students, cc all group members

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If working in a group presents a hardship, you can work alone