20-Apr-2004: Remember that tomorrow will be a lab day, and then Friday we will have a guest lecturer. I will post the paper for Friday's lecture soon, so keep an eye out for it.
16-Apr-2004: A new paper has been posted for Monday, and I do believe that Brian volunteered to present it. The bug in the simulations has been found and, we think, corrected; new simulations should be running by some time today (right, Xin?). We will have a guest speaker on either Wednesday or Friday of next week to talk about the problem of gathering allocation/deallocation traces in garbage collected environments, so a paper on that topic is also forthcoming.
15-Apr-2004: Okay, I forgot to post the article again. Lab tomorrow! We'll catch up on papers next week. Sorry about that, but we do have plenty to do in debugging the current simulations, re-running them, and producing results.
12-Apr-2004: Today will be a lab day. Since I failed to post a new reading for the weekend, I will post one this afternoon and we'll discuss papers on Wednesday and Friday.
2-Mar-2004: There are now unblocked versions of the Etch traces sitting in /scratch/cluster0-a/cs40/original-Etch-traces/ for y'all to use. I will leave the task of performing a basic blocking (with timestamp output) for these traces to the group managing the trace reducers. (Any one of the deletion reducers, using a reduction memory size of 1 page, should do the trick.)
27-Feb-2004: Doug Burger from the University of Texas will be giving a talk on TRIPS, The Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System at 3:30 pm in SMudd 206. There will be refreshments (read: free snacks) preceeding the talk at 3 pm in SMudd 205. As CS majors, you are expected to attend this talk.
27-Feb-2004: A reminder that we will, from today onward, use Friday as a lab day down in SMudd 007. That is where we will work out the interaction between the pieces and work collaboratively to move our experiments forward. You should be there whether you have yet been assigned to a particular piece of the experiments or not!
23-Feb-2004: See the tools page for information about writing scripts to run experiments on a somewhat-large cluster of machines.
15-Feb-2004: Since I forgot to post Monday's paper in a timely fashion, I have chosen to post a paper that I will present (instead of Lisa, who deserves more time to prepare). Do your best to read the paper on EELRU for tomorrow. Again, be sure to be somewhat familiar with how the algorithm works, and be ready to critique the experimental evaluation.
11-Feb-2004: The LRU/FIFO-deletion tool has been posted on the tools page. All are welcome to look at it, but our three volunteers should debug,
27-Jan-2004: Be sure to read the assignments page -- there's already a reading required for tomorrow.
26-Jan-2004: Not much available yet, but there will be soon. Check here regularly (that is, daily, at least) for updates and important information!