CS 699/CS-IT 803 Section 001
Compiler-Assisted Program Behavior Modeling and Improvement

Spring 2006

Innovation Hall  Room 211, Thursday, 7:20 - 10:00 pm

• Instructor: Yutao Zhong.
  Email: yzhong (at) cs (dot) gmu (dot) edu
  Office: STII 419
  Office hour: Tuesday 4:00 - 6:00 pm or by appointment.
• Prerequisites: CS540 or permission by the instructor

Announcements

• 04/28/2006: Guidelines for the final report of the term project online now.  The hard deadline is 05/10(Wednesday), no extensions.
• 04/21/2006: In-class presentation for term project starts next week and due by 05/04.  Guidelines for the presentation online now.
• 04/21/2006: Topic of next class: online profiling and optimization.  Speakers: Anh Vo and Kevin Dean.  Paper summary for Hazelwood & Grove(CGO'03) due before class.
• 04/13/2006: Topic of next class: OO application modeling.  Speakers: Lei Liu and Chien-Chih Lin.  Paper summary for Hauswirth et al. (OOPSLA'04) due before class.
• 04/07/2006: Topic of next class: power consumption.  Speakers: Paul Kohlbrenner and Anh Vo.  Paper summary for Kandermir et al. (Ch10 of "Power Aware Computing") due before class.
• 03/30/2006: Speakers for next class: Kevin Dean and Lei Liu.  Paper summary for Vallée-Rai et al.(CC'00) due before class.
• 03/24/2006: Topic for next class: malicious code detection, presented by Chien-Chih Lin.  Paper summary for Christodorescu & Jha (USENIX Security'03) due before class.
• 03/24/2006: Progress reports of the term project due by midnight of  04/13(Thursday).
• 03/14/2006: Important dates of the term project.
• 03/14/2006: Dr. H. Aydin provides great suggestions for paper presentations on CS773 web-site.  Notice that for our class you need to prepare for two hours' talk, including questions and answers, if you are the only speaker of the night.  Otherwise, you have one hour for talk and discussion.
• 03/10/2006: Topic for next class: program instrumentation, presented by Dan Ramey.  Paper summary for Luk et al.(PLDI'05) due before class.
• 03/06/2006: Brief guidelines for the project proposal online now.
• 03/03/2006: Topic for next class: phase behavior detection.  Paper summary for Sherwood et al.(ASPLOS'02) due before class.
• 02/24/2006: Proposals of the term project due by midnight of  03/19(Sunday).
• 02/24/2006: Topic for next class: hot data stream.  Paper summary for Chilimbi(PLDI'01) due before class.
• 02/17/2006: Topic for next class: cache analysis and improvement.  Paper summary for Marin & Mellor-Crummey(SIGMETRICS'04) due before class.
• 02/10/2006: Topic for next class: stack distance and reuse signature. Paper summary for Ding & Zhong(PLDI'03) due before class.
• 02/03/2006: Guidelines for paper reading and summary writing available now.
• 02/03/2006: Paper summary for Carr et al. (ASPLOS'94) due before class next Thursday. See schedule for the reading assignment. 
• 01/20/2006: Classroom moved from Thompson Hall to Innovation Hall Room 211 (we are much closer to STII now) !