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

Please answer the following questions. Link to submit your answers will be provided “soon”. You will have to do before the lecture on Thursday, Jan 17th. No late submissions will be accepted.

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

• Meltdown
  • Flush and Reload Attacks
• Spectre
• Ceaser
  • How to create an eviction set
  • Slides from MICRO presentation

• Lecture slides

• Dan Ernst, Todd M. Austin: Efficient Dynamic Scheduling Through Tag Elimination. ISCA 2002: 37-46
• Dan Ernst, Andrew Hamel, Todd M. Austin: Cyclone: A Broadcast-Free Dynamic Instruction Scheduler with Selective Replay. ISCA 2003: 253-262

• Simplescalar slides

• Everything you ever wanted to know about memory technology and architecture, J Thomas Pawlowski, Fellow and Chief Technologist, Micron Technology, Inc.

• Cyclone, Matrix Scheduler, and Scheduling Priorities

• Critical Path Prediction: Focusing Instruction Policies via Critical Path Prediction
• Slides