Course Calendar

CSE 561M

Week	Tuesday	Thursday
1	1/15 First lecture L1: Preliminaries HW0 assigned	1/17 L2: Multiprocessors, Multicomputers, and the Intel IXP HW0 due Read: Commentary: MPOC: A Chip Multiprocessor for Embedded Systems
2	1/22 L3: Intel IXP 2800/2850 Network Processor Read: Commentary: The Next Generation of Intel IXP Network Processors	1/24 L4: IXP tools tutorial Read: Commentary: The Push of Network Processing to the Top of the Pyramid, Will Eatherton's keynote from ANCS 2005.
3	1/29 L5: ME Assembly and Scratchpad Rings Do: Complete the IXP Tools tutorial on your own Commentary: Find (or write) a small piece of C code (it can be absolutely anything, completely trivial if you like) to drop into the tutorial project. Simulate that code, check that it works, and determine it’s run-time and microengine utilization. In your commentary, describe your program, include the source code, and describe the performance results you gathered. If you had any strange problems that kept you from simulating, describe those. (Spend no more than 45 minutes doing this.)	1/31 L6: IXA Portability Framework, Microblocks, Dispatch Loops Read: J&K: Skim Ch 1&2, read Ch 3.
4	2/5 L7: Simple MSF receive and transmit Do: Skim Ch. 4, Read Ch. 5 Commentary: Choose one of the following (I’ll post rings and queues project to the newsgroup) How would you improve on the scratchpad ring put performance? Describe your design, implement it and report results. Implement an analogous set of macros for SRAM rings. Describe the differences and performance and share your implementation in your commentary. How does this compare to a dynamically-linked ring implementation on your desktop machine? Describe your experience in your commentary.	2/7 L8: IXP Hardware Assists and Project Logistics Read: J&K: Ch. 6
5	2/12 L9: Introduction to the Open Network Lab Do: J&K: Read Ch. 7 Commentary: Download the sample simple_rpt project and implement a different process step (currently it counts packets seen). In your commentary, describe your processing step and include your code.	2/14 L10: Ordered Thread Execution Read: J&K: Read Ch. 8
6	2/19 L11: ONL NP Router Plugins Plugin API Read: J&K: Read Ch. 9	2/21 L12: ONL NP Router Simulation Project Read: J&K: Skim Ch. 10, Ch. 11
7	2/26 L13: Project Proposals Milestone 0 - Project Proposal Due Determine group members and name Propose project idea Use sentences and paragraphs to describe and motivate your idea Discuss the challenges and implementation questions you need to consider to finalize your design Break project into 6 milestones (see project logistics slide) Use sentences and paragraphs to describe each milestone goal Demonstrate a non-superficial understanding of the problem Try to limit your proposal to 2 or 3 pages Submit document to newsgroup, and bring hardcopy to class	2/28 L14: Project design working groups Read: J&K: Ch. 12
8	3/4 Class Cancelled due to snow storm Milestone 1 - Design Post your milestone report to the newsgroup. Bring a hardcopy to class.	3/6 L15: Project Designs & ONL NP Router Demo Read: J&K: Ch. 13
9	3/11 No classes Spring Break	3/13 No classes Spring Break
10	3/18 L16: Project Implementation 1 Milestone 2 - Implementation 1	3/20 L17: Performance Optimization and Evaluation
11	3/25 L18: Project Implementation 2 Milestone 3 - Implementation 2	3/27 L19: ONL NP Router Plugin Demo ONL NP Router Plugin Tutorial
12	4/1 ONL Help Session Milestone 4 - Implementation 3	4/3 L20: Project Implementation 3
13	4/8 ONL Help Session Milestone 5 - Implementation 4	4/10 L21: Multiprocessors & Multithreading Papers: Wulf and Harbison's Reflections in a Pool of Processors/An Experience Report on C.mmp/Hydra Presenters: Erik Church, Paul Sebert Seitz's The Cosmic Cube Presenters: Joe Clinch, Rich Hill Dean and Ghemawat's MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters Presenters: Mart Haitjema, Ritun Patney, Shakir James
14	4/15 ONL Help Session Milestone 6 - Wrap-up, prepare reports	4/17 L22: Dataflow & Transactional Memory Papers: Smith's Architecture and Applications of the HEP Multiprocessor Computer System Presenters: Steve Nann, Tam Vu Ngoc, Dan Vianello Dennis and Misunas' A Preliminary Architecture for a Basic Data-Flow Processor Presenters: Steve Prochazka, Mark Dunn Shriraman et al.'s Flexible Decoupled Transactional Memory Support Presenters: Eitan Marder-Eppstein, Stu Glaser
15	4/22 No class meeting	4/24 No class meeting Project reports (PDF) and code (ZIP) due via email Send me a .zip archive containing everything needed to run both a simulation and in ONL Please include a brief README explaining how to set up your experiment(s) Before submitting, verify that you can unzip your archive into a folder and run the experiments
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Finals week (5/1-5/7)		5/1 Final Exam Project Presentations We will meet at this time Cupples II, Room 217 4:00-6:30 PM