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CS258: Reading Assignment #20
Due Friday, May 10

The reading assignment for Wednesday for CS 258 is to read the following two papers:
  1. The Expandable Split Window Paradigm for Exploiting Fine-Grain Parallelism,  M. Franklin and G. S. Sohi

    2. In Proceedings 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-19), 1992.
  2. The Sensitivity of Communication Mechanisms to Bandwidth and Latency.  Frederic T. Chong, Rajeev Barua, Fredrik Dahlgren, John D. Kubiatowicz, and Anant Agarwal.  Proceedings of 4th Int'l Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Las Vegas, NV, Feb 1-4, 1998.
Write one paragraph about each of these papers. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.

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