Lesson 4: Memory Controllers

• discussion thread
• * Stall-Time Fair Memory Access Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors
  Mutlu and Moscibroda, MICRO '07
• * Self-Optimizing Memory Controllers: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
  Ipek et al., ISCA '08

On readings: Recommended background readings are marked with (^) above. Optional historical or fun readings are marked with (*). If you feel confortable with the topic already, you may skip these readings.

Notes

See my slides on Canvas

Tasks

Mostly the same as last time.

• Do the background reading and read the paper for next week.
• Decide on teams for projects. See the syllabus.
• Ask any questions about the course structure or content in this lesson's discussion topic.
• Pick a paper from the schedule whose discussion you want to lead. Claim it by opening a pull request that modifies content.toml to fill in your name on one of the leader = "TBD" lines.