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Paper Reviews

Post your reviews of the assigned papers on the Paper Review Board.

To Register

  • Go to the Paper Review Board, create an account ('register'), and login.
  • In the 'collections' page, select 'CMU 18-742: Parallel Computer Architecture – Fall 2012'.
  • Click 'Subscribe to this collection' and provide the code: ece742

To Review a Paper

  • Go to the Paper Review Board.
  • Click the title of the paper you wish to review.
  • Near the bottom of the page, click 'add review'.

Lecture 1

  • Due Sep 11th - Pick two papers from ISCA 2012 proceedings.
    • At least one of them should be new to you.
    • Cannot be a paper you have co-authored.
    • Bonus: pick three papers instead of two.
  • Due Sep 11th - NVIDIA Talk: Inside the Kepler GPU Architecture and Dynamic Parallelism.
    • NVIDIA Tech Talk by ECE Alumnus, Philip Cuadra.
    • Monday, September 10, 2012 7-9 pm, HH-1107.

Lecture 2

  • Due Sep 16th - Suleman et al., “Accelerating Critical Section Execution with Asymmetric Multi-Core Architectures,” ASPLOS 2009. pdf
  • Due Sep 16th - Suleman et al., “Data Marshaling for Multi-core Architectures,” ISCA 2010. pdf
  • Due Sep 16th - Joao et al., “Bottleneck Identification and Scheduling in Multithreaded Applications,” ASPLOS 2012. pdf

Lecture 5

  • Due Sep 21st - Smith, “Architecture and applications of the HEP multiprocessor computer system,” SPIE 1981. pdf
  • Due Sep 21st - Tullsen et al., “Exploiting choice: instruction fetch and issue on an implementable simultaneous multithreading processor,” ISCA 1996. pdf
  • Due Sep 21st - Chappell et al., “Simultaneous Subordinate Microthreading (SSMT),” ISCA 1999. pdf
  • Due Sep 21st - Reinhardt and Mukherjee, “Transient Fault Detection via Simultaneous Multithreading,” ISCA 2000. pdf