• P&P stands for Patt & Patel's Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond
  • (CMU WebISO) P&P Chapter 1 (Fundamentals)
  • (CMU WebISO) P&P Chapter 4 (The von Neumann Model)
  • (CMU WebISO) P&P Appendix A (The LC-3b ISA)
  • (CMU WebISO) P&P Appendix C (The Microarchitecture of the LC-3b, Basic Machine)
• P&H stands for Patterson & Hennessy's Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface

Required:

• None

Mentioned during lecture:

• Hamming, R. W. (1950). Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes. Bell System Technical Journal, 29(2).
• Hamming, R. W. (1986). You and Your Research. Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar.
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• Amdahl, G. M., Blaauw, G. A., & Brooks, F. P. (1964). Architecture of the IBM system/360. IBM J. Res. Dev., 8(2).
• Rixner, S., Dally, W. J., Kapasi, U. J., Mattson, P., & Owens, J. D. (2000). Memory access scheduling. Proceedings of the 27th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• William K. Zuravleff, & Robinson, T. (1997). Controller for a synchronous DRAM that maximizes throughput by allowing memory requests and commands to be issued out of order.
• Patt, Y. (2001). Requirements, bottlenecks, and good fortune: agents for microprocessor evolution. Proceedings of the IEEE.
• Moscibroda, T., & Mutlu, O. (2007). Memory performance attacks: denial of memory service in multi-core systems. Proceedings of 16th USENIX Security Symposium.
• Onur Mutlu and Thomas Moscibroda, "Stall-Time Fair Memory Access Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors", MICRO 2007.
• Sai Prashanth Muralidhara, Lavanya Subramanian, Onur Mutlu, Mahmut Kandemir, and Thomas Moscibroda, "Reducing Memory Interference in Multicore Systems via Application-Aware * Memory Channel Partitioning", MICRO 2011.
• Liu et al., “RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh,” ISCA 2012.
• Onur Mutlu, "Memory Scaling: A Systems Architecture Perspective" Technical talk at MemCon 2013 (MEMCON), Santa Clara, CA, August 2013.

Required:

• Patt, Y. (2001). Requirements, bottlenecks, and good fortune: agents for microprocessor evolution. Proceedings of the IEEE.
• Moscibroda, T., & Mutlu, O. (2007). Memory performance attacks: denial of memory service in multi-core systems. Proceedings of 16th USENIX Security Symposium.
• (CMU WebISO) P&P Chapter 1 (Fundamentals)
• P&H Chapters 1 and 2 (Intro, Abstractions, ISA, MIPS)

Mentioned during lecture:

• Moore, G. E. (1965). Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits. Electronics, 38(8).
• Burks, A. W., Goldstine, H. H., & Neumann, J. von. (1946). Preliminary discussion of the logical design of an electronic computing instrument.
• Dennis, J. B., & Misunas, D. P. (1975). A preliminary architecture for a basic data-flow processor. Proceedings of the 2nd annual symposium on Computer architecture.
• Gurd, J. R., Kirkham, C. C., & Watson, I. (1985). The Manchester prototype dataflow computer. Commun. ACM, 28(1).
• Kuhn, T. S. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
• (CMU WebISO) P&P Chapter 4 (The von Neumann Model)

Required:

• Note that you should familiarize yourself with these manuals. Please briefly skim through these manuals as you will probably need to refer to them while working on labs and homework
• ARM Architecture Reference Manual
  • Manual (5MB)
• ARM Architecture Instruction Quick Reference
  • Quick Ref (.5MB)
• Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manual (2013)
  • (15MB) Combined Volumes 1-33

Mentioned during lecture:

• P&H Chapter 4, Sections 4.1-4.4.
• (CMU WebISO) P&P Appendix C (The Microarchitecture of the LC-3b, Basic Machine)
• P&P Chapter 5 (The LC3)
• Patterson, D. A., & Ditzel, D. R. (1980). The case for the reduced instruction set computer. SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, 8(6).
• Koopman, P. (1989) Stack Computers: The New Wave.
• Levy, H. (1984). Capability-Based Computer Systems. Chapter 9. The Intel iAPX 432.
• Wilner, W. T. (1972). Design of the Burroughs B1700. Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part I.

Required

• (CMU WebISO) P&P Chapter 4 (The von Neumann Model)
• (CMU WebISO) P&P Appendix A (The LC-3b ISA)
• (CMU WebISO) P&P Appendix C (The Microarchitecture of the LC-3b, Basic Machine)

Required

• None

Required:

• (CMU WebISO) P&P Appendix C (The Microarchitecture of the LC-3b, Basic Machine)
• P&H Appendix D (Mapping Control to Hardware)

Optional:

• Wilkes, M. V. (1951). The best way to design an automatic calculating machine. Manchester University Computer Inaugural Conference.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Wilkes, M. V. (1951). The best way to design an automatic calculating machine. Manchester University Computer Inaugural Conference.

Required:

• None

Mentioned during lecture:

• (CMU WebISO) P&P Appendix C (The Microarchitecture of the LC-3b, Basic Machine)

Required:

• None

Required:

• P&H Sections 4.9-4.11
• Smith, J. E., & Sohi, G. S. (1995). The microarchitecture of superscalar processors. Proceedings of the IEEE.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Allen, J. R., Kennedy, K., Porterfield, C., & Warren, J. (1983). Conversion of control dependence to data dependence. Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages.
• Kim, H., Mutlu, O., Stark, J., & Patt, Y. N. (2005). Wish Branches: Combining Conditional Branching and Predication for Adaptive Predicated Execution. Proceedings of the 38th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Thornton, J. E. (1964). Parallel Operation in the Control Data 6600. Proceedings of the Fall Joint Computer Conference.
• Smith, B. J. (1978). A pipelined, shared resource MIMD computer. International Conference on Parallel Processing.
• Pettis, K., & Hansen, R. C. (1990). Profile guided code positioning. Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1990 conference on Programming language design and implementation.

Required:

• Mcfarling, S. (1993). Combining branch predictors. WRL Technical Note TN-36.
• Kessler, R. E. (1999). The Alpha 21264 Microprocessor. IEEE Micro.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Ball, T., & Larus, J. R. (1993). Branch prediction for free. Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1993 conference on Programming language design and implementation.
• Smith, J. E. (1981). A study of branch prediction strategies. Proceedings of the 8th annual symposium on Computer Architecture.
• Yeh, T.-Y., & Patt, Y. N. (1991). Two-level adaptive training branch prediction. Proceedings of the 24th annual international symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Chang, P.-Y., Hao, E., Yeh, T.-Y., & Patt, Y. (1994). Branch classification: a new mechanism for improving branch predictor performance. Proceedings of the 27th annual international symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Daniel A. Jimenez and Calvin Lin. 2001. Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '01)
• E. M. Riseman and C. C. Foster. 1972. The Inhibition of Potential Parallelism by Conditional Jumps. IEEE Trans. Comput. 21, 12 (December 1972)

Required

• None

Mentioned during the lecture

• Po-Yung Chang, Eric Hao, and Yale N. Patt. 1997. Target prediction for indirect jumps. ISCA'97.
• Hyesoon Kim, José A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, Chang Joo Lee, Yale N. Patt, and Robert Cohn. 2007. VPC prediction: reducing the cost of indirect branches via hardware-based dynamic devirtualization. ISCA'07

Required

• P&H Sections 4.9-4.11
• Smith, J. E., & Sohi, G. S. (1995). The microarchitecture of superscalar processors. Proceedings of the IEEE.
• Smith, J. E., & Pleszkun, A. R. (1988). Implementing precise interrupts in pipelined processors. Computers, IEEE Transactions on.

Required

• none

Required

• Hwu, W. W., & Patt, Y. N. (1987). Checkpoint repair for out-of-order execution machines. Proceedings of the 14th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Smith, J. E., & Sohi, G. S. (1995). The microarchitecture of superscalar processors. Proceedings of the IEEE.
• Smith, J. E., & Pleszkun, A. R. (1988). Implementing precise interrupts in pipelined processors. Computers, IEEE Transactions on.

Required

• Lindholm, E., Nickolls, J., Oberman, S., & Montrym, J. (2008). NVIDIA Tesla: A Unified Graphics and Computing Architecture. Micro, IEEE.
• Fatahalian, K., & Houston, M. (2008). A closer look at GPUs. Commun. ACM.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Fung, W. W. L., Sham, I., Yuan, G., & Aamodt, T. M. (2007). Dynamic Warp Formation and Scheduling for Efficient GPU Control Flow. Proceedings of the 40th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Suleman, M. A., Mutlu, O., Qureshi, M. K., & Patt, Y. N. (2009). Accelerating critical section execution with asymmetric multi-core architectures. Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems.
• Flynn, M. J. (1966). Very high-speed computing systems. Proceedings of the IEEE.
• Fisher, J. A. (1983). Very Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512. Proceedings of the 10th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Smith, J. E. (1982). Decoupled access/execute computer architectures. Proceedings of the 9th annual symposium on Computer Architecture.
• Smith, J. E. (1984). Decoupled access/execute computer architectures. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst.
• Smith, J. E., Dermer, G. E., Vanderwarn, B. D., Klinger, S. D., & Rozewski, C. M. (1987). The ZS-1 central processor. Proceedings of the second international conference on Architectual support for programming languages and operating systems.
• Smith, J. E. (1989). Dynamic instruction scheduling and the Astronautics ZS-1. IEEE Computer.
• Kung, H. T. (1982). Why Systolic Architectures? IEEE Computer.
• Annaratone, M., Arnould, E., Gross, T., Kung, H. T., & Lam, M. S. (1986). Warp architecture and implementation. Proceedings of the 13th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Annaratone, M., Arnould, E., Gross, T., Kung, H. T., & Lam, M. (1987). The warp computer: Architecture, implementation, and performance. IEEE Transactions on Computers.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Fisher, J. A. (1981). Trace Scheduling: A Technique for Global Microcode Compaction. IEEE Trans. Comput.
• Hwu, W.-M. W., Mahlke, S. A., Chen, W. Y., Chang, P. P., Warter, N. J., Bringmann, R. A., Ouellette, R. G., et al. (1993). The superblock: an effective technique for VLIW and superscalar compilation. J. Supercomput.
• Mahlke, S. A., Lin, D. C., Chen, W. Y., Hank, R. E., & Bringmann, R. A. (1992). Effective compiler support for predicated execution using the hyperblock. Proceedings of the 25th annual international symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Melvin, S., & Patt, Y. (1995). Enhancing instruction scheduling with a block-structured ISA. Int. J. Parallel Program.
• Hao, E., Chang, P.-Y., Evers, M., & Patt, Y. N. (1996). Increasing the instruction fetch rate via block-structured instruction set architectures. Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Huck, J., Morris, D., Ross, J., Knies, A., Mulder, H., & Zahir, R. (2000). Introducing the IA-64 architecture. IEEE Micro.

Required:

• P&H Chapters 5.1-5.3 (cache chapters)
• Hamacher et al. Chapters 8.1-8.7 (cache/memory chapters)
• Wilkes, M. V. (1965). Slave Memories and Dynamic Storage Allocation. IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers.

Mentioned in the Lecture

• Qureshi, M. K., Lynch, D. N., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2006). A Case for MLP-Aware Cache Replacement. Proceedings of the 33rd annual international symposium on Computer Architecture.
• Belady, L. A. (1966). A study of replacement algorithms for a virtual-storage computer. IBM Syst. J.

Required

• Qureshi, M. K., Lynch, D. N., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2006). A Case for MLP-Aware Cache Replacement. Proceedings of the 33rd annual international symposium on Computer Architecture.
• Belady, L. A. (1966). A study of replacement algorithms for a virtual-storage computer. IBM Syst. J.

Recommended:

• Bell, G., & Strecker, W. D. (1998). Retrospective: what have we learned from the PDP-11—what we have learned from VAX and Alpha. 25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture (selected papers).
• Bell, G., & Strecker, W. D. (1976). Computer structures: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Proceedings of the 3rd annual symposium on Computer architecture.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Lee et al., Tiered-Latency DRAM: A Low Latency and Low Cost DRAM Architecture, HPCA 2013.
• Liu et al., RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh, ISCA 2012.
• Kim et al., “A Case for Exploiting Subarray-Level Parallelism in DRAM, ISCA 2012.
• Liu et al., “An Experimental Study of Data Retention Behavior in Modern DRAM Devices,” ISCA 2013.
• Moscibroda, T., & Mutlu, O. (2007). Memory performance attacks: denial of memory service in multi-core systems. Proceedings of 16th USENIX Security Symposium.
• Mutlu, O., & Moscibroda, T. (2007). Stall-Time Fair Memory Access Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors. Proceedings of the 40th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (pp. 146–160).
• Mutlu, O., & Moscibroda, T. (2008). Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enhancing both Performance and Fairness of Shared DRAM Systems. Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
• Kim, Y., Papamichael, M., Mutlu, O., & Harchol-Balter, M. (2010). Thread Cluster Memory Scheduling: Exploiting Differences in Memory Access Behavior. Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Muralidhara, S. P., Subramanian, L., Mutlu, O., Kandemir, M., & Moscibroda, T. (2011). Reducing memory interference in multicore systems via application-aware memory channel partitioning. Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Ebrahimi, E., Lee, C. J., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2010). Fairness via source throttling: a configurable and high-performance fairness substrate for multi-core memory systems. Proceedings of the fifteenth edition of ASPLOS on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems.
• Ebrahimi, E., Miftakhutdinov, R., Fallin, C., Lee, C. J., Joao, J. A., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2011). Parallel application memory scheduling. Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Recommended:

• Bell, G., & Strecker, W. D. (1998). Retrospective: what have we learned from the PDP-11—what we have learned from VAX and Alpha. 25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture (selected papers).
• Bell, G., & Strecker, W. D. (1976). Computer structures: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Proceedings of the 3rd annual symposium on Computer architecture.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Lee et al., Tiered-Latency DRAM: A Low Latency and Low Cost DRAM Architecture, HPCA 2013.
• Liu et al., RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh, ISCA 2012.
• Kim et al., “A Case for Exploiting Subarray-Level Parallelism in DRAM, ISCA 2012.
• Liu et al., “An Experimental Study of Data Retention Behavior in Modern DRAM Devices,” ISCA 2013.
• Moscibroda, T., & Mutlu, O. (2007). Memory performance attacks: denial of memory service in multi-core systems. Proceedings of 16th USENIX Security Symposium.
• Mutlu, O., & Moscibroda, T. (2007). Stall-Time Fair Memory Access Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors. Proceedings of the 40th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (pp. 146–160).
• Mutlu, O., & Moscibroda, T. (2008). Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enhancing both Performance and Fairness of Shared DRAM Systems. Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
• Kim, Y., Papamichael, M., Mutlu, O., & Harchol-Balter, M. (2010). Thread Cluster Memory Scheduling: Exploiting Differences in Memory Access Behavior. Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Muralidhara, S. P., Subramanian, L., Mutlu, O., Kandemir, M., & Moscibroda, T. (2011). Reducing memory interference in multicore systems via application-aware memory channel partitioning. Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Ebrahimi, E., Lee, C. J., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2010). Fairness via source throttling: a configurable and high-performance fairness substrate for multi-core memory systems. Proceedings of the fifteenth edition of ASPLOS on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems.
• Ebrahimi, E., Miftakhutdinov, R., Fallin, C., Lee, C. J., Joao, J. A., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2011). Parallel application memory scheduling. Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Liu et al., RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh, ISCA 2012.
• Liu et al., “An Experimental Study of Data Retention Behavior in Modern DRAM Devices,” ISCA 2013.
• Kim, Y., Papamichael, M., Mutlu, O., & Harchol-Balter, M. (2010). Thread Cluster Memory Scheduling: Exploiting Differences in Memory Access Behavior. Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Muralidhara, S. P., Subramanian, L., Mutlu, O., Kandemir, M., & Moscibroda, T. (2011). Reducing memory interference in multicore systems via application-aware memory channel partitioning. Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Ebrahimi, E., Lee, C. J., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2010). Fairness via source throttling: a configurable and high-performance fairness substrate for multi-core memory systems. Proceedings of the fifteenth edition of ASPLOS on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems.
• Ebrahimi, E., Miftakhutdinov, R., Fallin, C., Lee, C. J., Joao, J. A., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2011). Parallel application memory scheduling. Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Ipek, E., Mutlu, O., Martinez, J., Caruana, R. (2008). Self-Optimizing Memory Controllers: A Reinforcement Learning Approach. Proceedings of the 42th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Required:

• Mutlu, O., Stark, J., Wilkerson, C., & Patt, Y. N. (2003). Runahead Execution: An Alternative to Very Large Instruction Windows for Out-of-Order Processors. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.
• Srinath, S., Mutlu, O., Kim, H., & Patt, Y. N. (2007). Feedback Directed Prefetching: Improving the Performance and Bandwidth-Efficiency of Hardware Prefetchers. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 13th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture.

Recommended:

• Mutlu, O., Kim, H., & Patt, Y. N. (2005). Address-Value Delta (AVD) Prediction: Increasing the Effectiveness of Runahead Execution by Exploiting Regular Memory Allocation Patterns. Proceedings of the 38th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
• Mutlu, O., Kim, H., & Patt, Y. N. (2006). Efficient Runahead Execution: Power-Efficient Memory Latency Tolerance. IEEE Micro.
• Armstrong, D. N., Kim, H., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2004). Wrong Path Events: Exploiting Unusual and Illegal Program Behavior for Early Misprediction Detection and Recovery. Proceedings of the 37th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Required:

• None

Mentioned during lecture:

• Baer, J.-L., & Chen, T.-F. (1991). An effective on-chip preloading scheme to reduce data access penalty. Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing.
• Jouppi, N. P. (1990). Improving direct-mapped cache performance by the addition of a small fully-associative cache and prefetch buffers. Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture.
• Mowry, T. C., Lam, M. S., & Gupta, A. (1992). Design and evaluation of a compiler algorithm for prefetching. Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems.

Required:

• Amdahl, G. M. (1967). Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities. Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference.
• Lamport, L. (1979). How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs.
• (CMU WebISO) C&S, Chapters 5.1 & 5.3
• P&H, Chapter 5.8

Recommended:

• (CMU WebISO) Hill, Jouppi, Sohi. "Multiprocessors and Multicomputers," pp. 551-560 in Readings in Computer Architecture.
• (CMU WebISO) Hill, Jouppi, Sohi. "Dataflow and Multithreading," pp. 309-314 in Readings in Computer Architecture.
• Flynn, M. J. (1966). Very high-speed computing systems. Proceedings of the IEEE.
• Papamarcos, M. S., & Patel, J. H. (1984). A low-overhead coherence solution for multiprocessors with private cache memories. Proceedings of the 11th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Baer, J.-L., & Chen, T.-F. (1991). An effective on-chip preloading scheme to reduce data access penalty. Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing.
• Srinath, S., Mutlu, O., Kim, H., & Patt, Y. N. (2007). Feedback Directed Prefetching: Improving the Performance and Bandwidth-Efficiency of Hardware Prefetchers. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 13th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture.
• Joseph, D., & Grunwald, D. (1997). Prefetching using Markov predictors. Proceedings of the 24th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Cooksey, R., Jourdan, S., & Grunwald, D. (2002). A stateless, content-directed data prefetching mechanism. Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems.
• Ebrahimi, E., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2009). Techniques for bandwidth-efficient prefetching of linked data structures in hybrid prefetching systems. High Performance Computer Architecture, 2009.
• Chappell, R. S., Stark, J., Kim, S. P., Reinhardt, S. K., & Patt, Y. N. (1999). Simultaneous subordinate microthreading (SSMT). Proceedings of the 26th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Zilles, C., & Sohi, G. (2001). Execution-based prediction using speculative slices. Proceedings of the 28th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Luk, C.-K. (2001). Tolerating memory latency through software-controlled pre-execution in simultaneous multithreading processors. Proceedings of the 28th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Zilles, C. B., & Sohi, G. S. (2000). Understanding the backward slices of performance degrading instructions. Proceedings of the 27th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Mutlu, O., Stark, J., Wilkerson, C., & Patt, Y. N. (2003). Runahead Execution: An Alternative to Very Large Instruction Windows for Out-of-Order Processors. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.
• Jouppi, N. P. (1990). Improving direct-mapped cache performance by the addition of a small fully-associative cache and prefetch buffers. Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture.

Required:

• Amdahl, G. M. (1967). Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities. Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference.
• Lamport, L. (1979). How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs.
• (CMU WebISO) C&S, Chapters 5.1 & 5.3
• P&H, Chapter 5.8

Required:

• Pekhimenko et al., “Linearly Compressed Pages: A Main Memory Compression Framework with Low Complexity and Low Latency,” MICRO 2013.
• Pekhimenko et al., "Base-Delta-Immediate Compression: Practical Data Compression for On-Chip Caches," PACT 2012.
• Subramanian et al., “MISE: Providing Performance Predictability and Improving Fairness in Shared Main Memory Systems,” HPCA 2013.

Required:

• Amdahl, G. M. (1967). Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities. Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference.
• Lamport, L. (1979). How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs.
• (CMU WebISO) C&S, Chapters 5.1 & 5.3
• P&H, Chapter 5.8

Recommended:

• (CMU WebISO) Hill, Jouppi, Sohi. "Multiprocessors and Multicomputers," pp. 551-560 in Readings in Computer Architecture.
• (CMU WebISO) Hill, Jouppi, Sohi. "Dataflow and Multithreading," pp. 309-314 in Readings in Computer Architecture.
• Flynn, M. J. (1966). Very high-speed computing systems. Proceedings of the IEEE.
• Papamarcos, M. S., & Patel, J. H. (1984). A low-overhead coherence solution for multiprocessors with private cache memories. Proceedings of the 11th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.

Mentioned during lecture:

• Patel, J. H. (1979). Processor-memory interconnections for multiprocessors. Proceedings of the 6th annual symposium on Computer architecture.
• Moscibroda, T., & Mutlu, O. (2009). A case for bufferless routing in on-chip networks. Proceedings of the 36th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Gottlieb, A., Grishman, R., Kruskal, C. P., McAuliffe, K. P., Rudolph, L., & Snir, M. (1982). The NYU Ultracomputer -- designing a MIMD, shared-memory parallel machine (Extended Abstract). Proceedings of the 9th annual symposium on Computer Architecture.
• Seitz, C. L. (1985). The cosmic cube. Commun. ACM.
• Glass, C. J., & Ni, L. M. (1992). The turn model for adaptive routing. Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.

Required:

• None

Mentioned during lecture:

• Amdahl, G. M. (1967). Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities. Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference.
• Grochowski, E., Ronen, R., Shen, J., & Wang, H. (2004). Best of Both Latency and Throughput. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (pp. 236–243).
• Tendler, J. M., Dodson, J. S., Fields, J. S., Le, H., & Sinharoy, B. (2002). POWER4 system microarchitecture. IBM J. Res. Dev.
• Kalla, R., Sinharoy, B., & Tendler, J. M. (2004). IBM Power5 Chip: A Dual-Core Multithreaded Processor. IEEE Micro.
• Kongetira, P., Aingaran, K., & Olukotun, K. (2005). Niagara: A 32-Way Multithreaded Sparc Processor. IEEE Micro.
• Suleman, M. A., Mutlu, O., Qureshi, M. K., & Patt, Y. N. (2009). Accelerating critical section execution with asymmetric multi-core architectures. Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems.
• Suleman, M. A., Mutlu, O., Joao, J. A., Khubaib, & Patt, Y. N. (2010). Data marshaling for multi-core architectures. Proceedings of the 37th annual international symposium on Computer architecture.
• Joao, J. A., Suleman, M. A., Mutlu, O., & Patt, Y. N. (2012). Bottleneck identification and scheduling in multithreaded applications. Proceedings of the seventeenth international conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.

Required:

• None

Mentioned during lecture:

• Liu, Jaiyen, Veras, Mutlu, “RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh,” ISCA 2012.
• Kim, Seshadri, Lee+, “A Case for Exploiting Subarray-Level Parallelism in DRAM,” ISCA 2012.
• Lee+, “Tiered-Latency DRAM: A Low Latency and Low Cost DRAM Architecture,” HPCA 2013.
• Liu+, “An Experimental Study of Data Retention Behavior in Modern DRAM Devices,” ISCA 2013.
• Seshadri+, “RowClone: Fast and Efficient In-DRAM Copy and Initialization of Bulk Data,” MICRO 2013.
• Pekhimenko+, “Linearly Compressed Pages: A Main Memory Compression Framework,” MICRO 2013.
• Chang+, “Improving DRAM Performance by Parallelizing Refreshes with Accesses,” HPCA 2014.
• Khan+, “The Efficacy of Error Mitigation Techniques for DRAM Retention Failures: A Comparative Experimental Study,” SIGMETRICS 2014.
• Luo+, “Characterizing Application Memory Error Vulnerability to Optimize Data Center Cost,” DSN 2014.
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