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Fall 2021 Lectures/Schedule

Week	Date	Livestream	Lecture	Readings
W1	23.09 Thu.	Live	L1a: Course Logistics (PDF) (PPT)	Suggested
			L1b: Introduction and Basics (PDF) (PPT)	Suggested
			L1c: Architectural Design Fundamentals (PDF) (PPT) Video	Suggested
W2	30.09 Thu.	Live	L2: GateKeeper (PDF) (PPT)	Suggested
W3	07.10 Thu.	Live	L3: RowClone (Processing using DRAM) (PDF) (PPT)	Suggested
W4	14.10 Thu.	Live	L4: Memory Channel Partitioning (PDF) (PPT)	Suggested
W5	4.11 Thu.	Live	S1.1: Bottleneck Identification and Scheduling in Multithreaded Applications, ASPLOS 2012. (PDF) (PPT)	Mentioned
W6	11.11 Thu.		S2.1: Profiling a Warehouse-Scale Computer, ISCA 2015. (PDF) (PPT)	Mentioned
W6	11.11 Thu.	Live	S2.2: Understanding Sources of Inefficiency in General-Purpose Chips, ISCA 2010. (PDF) (ODP) (PPT)	Mentioned
W7	18.11 Thu.	Live	S3.1: Pythia: A Customizable Hardware Prefetching Framework Using Online Reinforcement Learning, MICRO2021 (PDF) (PPT)	Mentioned
W7	18.11 Thu.		S3.2: Branch Runahead: An Alternative to Branch Prediction for Impossible to Predict Branches, MICRO 2021 (PDF) (PPT)	Mentioned
W8	25.11 Thu.	Live	S4.1: Very Long Instruction Word Architectures and the ELI-512, ISCA1983 (PDF) (KEY)	Mentioned
W8	25.11 Thu.	Live	S4.2: A Case for Richer Cross-layer Abstractions: Bridging the Semantic Gap with Expressive Memory, ISCA 2018. (PDF) (ODP)	Mentioned
W9	02.12 Thu.	Live	S5.1: Quantifying Server Memory Frequency Margin and Using It to Improve Performance in HPC Systems, ISCA 2021 (PDF) (PPT)	Mentioned
W9	02.12 Thu.	Live	S5.2: SIMDRAM: An End-to-End Framework for Bit-Serial SIMD Computing in DRAM, ASPLOS 2021. (PDF) (KEY)	Mentioned
W10	09.12 Thu.	Live	S6.1: TRRespass: Exploiting the Many Sides of Target Row Refresh, IEEE S&P, 2020 (PDF)	Mentioned
W10	09.12 Thu.	Live	S6.2: BlockHammer: Preventing RowHammer at Low Cost by Blacklisting Rapidly-Accessed DRAM Rows, HPCA 2021. (PDF) (PPT)	Mentioned
W11	16.12 Thu.	Live	S7.1: RAMBleed: Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020. (PPT) (PDF)	Mentioned
W11	16.12 Thu.	Live	S7.2: Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine, IEEE S&P 2003. (PPT) (PDF)	Mentioned
W12	23.12 Thu.	Live	S8.1: Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms, CCS 2016. (PPT) (PDF)	Mentioned
			S8.2: SquiggleFilter: An Accelerator for Portable Virus Detection, MICRO 2021 (PPT) (PDF)	Mentioned
			S8.3: Google Workloads for Consumer Devices: Mitigating Data Movement Bottlenecks, ASPLOS 2018. (PPT) (PDF)	Mentioned