Interesting Reading List




 G. MOORE, "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits", Electronics,
p114-117, April 1965. (Also in "Readings in Computer Architecture," pages 56-59 + Editor intro pages 13-14.)

J. S. LIPTAY, "Structural Aspects of the System/360 Model 85, Part II: The Cache", IBM
Systems Journal,, 7, 1 (1968), 15-21). (Also in "Readings in Computer Architecture," pages 373-379 + Editor intro pages 364-65.)

 J.GRAY, Turing Award Lecture: "What Next? A dozen remaining IT problems"(1999)

 Hennessy, J. "The future of systems research." Computer, vol.32, (no.8), IEEE Comput. Soc, Aug. 1999.

 G. M. AMDAHL, "Validity of the Single-Processor Approach to Achieving Large Scale
Computing Capabilities", AFIPS Conference Proceedings, (April 1967), 483-485.
(Also in "Readings in Computer Architecture," pages 79-81 + Editor intro pages 70-71.)

 Gibson, J.; Kunz, R.; Ofelt, D.; Horowitz, M.; Hennessy, J.; Heinrich, M. "FLASH vs. (simulated) FLASH: closing the simulation loop." Operating Systems Review, vol.34, (no.5), (ASPLOS-IX. Ninth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA, 12-15 Nov. 2000.) ACM, Dec. 2000. Also see about Flash in ISCA Retrospective.

 R. M. RUSSELL, "The Cray-1 Computer System", Comm. ACM, 21, 1 (January 1978),
63-72. (Also in "Readings in Computer Architecture," pages 40-49 + Editor intro pages 8-9.)

M. J. FLYNN, " Very High-Speed Computing Systems", Proceedings of the IEEE , vol.
54, no. 12, December 1966. (Also in "Readings in Computer Architecture," pages 519-527 + Editor intro pages 515-517.

Anant Agarwal et all, "The MIT Alewife Machine: Architecture and Performance" (.ps.Z) , December 1994.

SoftFLASH: Analyzing the Performance of Clustered Distributed Virtual Shared Memory
Andrew Erlichson: Stanford University, Neal Nuckolls, Greg Chesson: Silicon Graphics, Inc. and John Hennessy: Stanford University.

Jouppi, N. P.; Wall, D. W., "Available Instruction-Level Parallelism for Superscalar and Superpipelined Machines,".

Lebeck, A., Wood, D., "Cache Profiling and the SPEC Benchmarks: A Case Study,"

Wu, P., Huang, K., "Case Studies on Cache Performance and Optimization of Programs with Unit Strides,"

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