• Lecture slides (the CEASER slides are from Moin Qureshi's presentation at intro.pptx)

Readings:

* Meltdown

• Flush and Reload Attacks
• Spectre

You must read Moin Qureshi's CEASER paper below. The rest are for your reference as they provide necessary background for appreciating CEASER.

• Ceaser
  • How to create an eviction set
  • Slides from MICRO presentation

You must read the Morpheus paper below.

Please fill in the questionnaire before the lecture on Thursday and submit through Quercus.

Updated Morpheus Slides

Out-of-Order Processing Core Structures: Complexity Analysis and Clustered Cores: slides Reading: Complexity Effective Superscalar Processors

Introduction to the simplescalar OOO processor simulator: slides Simplescalar User's Manual

OOO Scheduler Optimizations: slides

Multiscalar: sides RePlay: slides

SlipStream: slides

Critical Path Prediction: slides

Critical Path Prediction Contd.

NUCA: Slides

Runahead Execution

DaDianNao: slides

Papers to read:

DaDianNao and Eyeriss @ ISCA and Eyeriss (more detailed).

Continued discussion of DaDianNao and Eyeriss

Finished discussion of Eyeriss. Covered also EIE/Deep Compression (slides and papers: 1, 2) and intro to SCNN (slides and paper).

We will go over over the following:

• Google's TPU v1: paper, slides
• RNNs, LSTMs, and the Efficient Speech Engine: paper, slides
• GRUs and DeltaRNN: paper, slides
• Intro to GPUs: programming model, hardware