1.  | Project Proposal by September 23 |
    | Browse the programs of recent ISCA/MICRO/HPCA/ASPLOS/OSDI/SOSP/S&P/SEC conferences in the area of computer architecture; |
    | Find a research topic you are interested in; |
    | Read state-of-the-art papers as well as recent related papers in top venues; |
    | Discover their common limitations and propose a feasible solution; |
2.  | Report |
    | What is the research problem? |
    | Why is it important? |
    | How does the state of the art address it? |
    | Any limitations? |
    | What would you do? Learn from Research Patterns by Prof. Nick Feamster from Princeton. |
3.  | Prototype |
4.  | Presentation |
20%       |
Report: follow ISCA/MICRO/HPCA/ASPLOS/OSDI/SOSP/S&P/SEC template and organization check out our first computer architecture paper, the second, the third, and the fourth |
6% | Prototype |
6% | Presentation |