CS258: Reading Assignment #7 Due Wednesday, February 27

1. LogP: Towards a Realistic Model of Parallel Computation, David Culler, Richard Karpy, David Patterson, Abhijit Sahay, Klaus Erik Schauser, Eunice Santos, Ramesh Subramonian, and Thorsten von Eicken.  In Proceedings of PPOPP, May 1993
2. Scalar Operand Networks: On-chip Interconnect for ILP in Partitioned Architectures, Michael Bedford Taylor, Walter Lee, Saman Amarasinghe, and Anant Agarwal, Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, February 2003
• Supplemental reading: Evaluation of the Raw Microprocessor: An Exposed-Wire-Delay Architecture for ILP and Streams, Michael Bedford Taylor, Walter Lee, Jason Miller, David Wentzlaff, Ian Bratt, Ben Greenwald, Henry Hoffmann, Paul Johnson, Jason Kim, James Psota, Arvind Saraf, Nathan Shnidman, Volker Strumpen, Matt Frank, Saman Amarasinghe, and Anant Agarwal. Proceedings of International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2004

Write one paragraph about each paper. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.