227-2211-00L Seminar in Computer Architecture
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2022 |
| Lecturers | O. Mutlu, M. H. K. Alser, J. Gómez Luna |
| Periodicity | every semester recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Comment | Number of participants limited to 28. The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar. |
| Abstract | In this seminar course, we will cover fundamental and cutting-edge research papers in computer architecture. The course will consist of multiple components that are aimed at improving students' technical skills in computer architecture, critical thinking and analysis on computer architecture concepts, as well as technical presentation of concepts and papers in both spoken and written forms. |
| Learning objective | The main objective is to learn how to rigorously analyze and present papers and ideas on computer architecture. We will have rigorous presentation and discussion of selected papers during lectures and a written report delivered by each student at the end of the semester. This course is for those interested in computer architecture. Registered students are expected to attend every lecture, participate in the discussion, and create a synthesis report at the end of the course. |
| Content | Topics will center around computer architecture. We will, for example, discuss papers on hardware security; new execution paradigms like processing in memory; architectural acceleration mechanisms for key applications like machine learning, graph processing and bioinformatics; memory systems; interconnects; various fundamental and emerging paradigms in computer architecture; hardware/software co-design and cooperation; fault tolerance; energy efficiency; heterogeneous and parallel systems; technology scaling; new execution models, etc. See https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_seminar for past examples. |
| Lecture notes | All the materials will be posted on the course website: https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_seminar/ Links to past course materials, including the synthesis report assignment, can be found in this page: https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_seminar |
| Literature | Key papers and articles, on both fundamentals and cutting-edge topics in computer architecture will be provided and discussed. These will be posted on the course website. See https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_seminar for past examples. |
| Prerequisites / Notice | Design of Digital Circuits. Students should have done very well in Digital Design and Computer Architecture (https://safari.ethz.ch/digitaltechnik) show a genuine interest in Computer Architecture research and practice. |