What I've done in past 6 months Wen-Long Yang

Courses in this semester Advanced Compiler Focus on how gcc works. Gives us an outline of the implementation of gcc Learn from examples. Project : prefetch of pointer-based data structure. Advanced Computer Architecture I/O Devices and Driver Design Entrance to linux kernel and driver development

Paper presentation Reading When we are difficult to understand the content of a paper, we can try to find other information in the internet or read other papers of the same subject. Try to find out the main idea of the paper

Gentoo Linux Peculiarity: Instead of being downloaded from internet directly, packages are built from source codes and be optimized by users. We must choose a good combination of flags to let gcc compile the source codes. May get better performance or suit our request Take a lot of time to download the source code and compile Issues: Does the cflags we choose really influence the stability? Is the performance of gentoo linux really better than that of other distribution? If yes, how much speedup can we gain?

Next Semester… Learn parallel computing Multi-core processors Motivation: group meeting: heterogeneous v.s. homogeneous processors Paper survey & reading Course: Multicores and Their Compilation Multimedia coding and computer architecture Course: information theory and coding techniques Survey papers of other subjects… Learn more actively