| September 3 | Course overview |
| September 5 | Moore's Law |
| September 10 | Commercial Workloads: benchmarks and servers |
| September 12 | Game Consoles |
| September 17 | Probability Review |
| September 19 | Disk Modeling |
| September 24 | RAID |
| September 26 | Ethernet |
| October 1 | Network Switches |
| October 3 | Switch Scheduling |
| October 8 | Cache Review |
| October 10 | Victim Caches and Stream Prefetching |
| October 15 | Cache Coherence: Snooping |
| October 17 | The Alpha 21364 Network Architecture |
| October 22 | Midterm Exam |
| October 24 | Introduction to Instruction Level Parallelism |
| October 29 | Loop Optimization |
| October 31 | The MIPS R10000 Superscalar Microprocessor |
| November 5 | no class |
| November 7 | The Intel IA-64 |
| November 12 | Simultaneous Multithreading |
| November 14 | Compaq and Intel SMT |
Copyright 2002 Mark R. Greenstreet
mrg@cs.ubc.ca
Last Modified: 12 November 2002