comparch.md

C++ links: computer architecture

Note: see also Assembly (x86)

Books

1. From NAND to Tetris Building a Modern Computer From First Principles http://www.nand2tetris.org/ (no prerequisites)

2. Patt & Patel: Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond! http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/compsci/patt/ (no prerequisites, freshmen year level)

3. Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd Edition
   http://store.elsevier.com/Digital-Design-and-Computer-Architecture/David-Harris/isbn-9780123944245/
   http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780123944245/
   (background; no prerequisites beyond basic programming) digital logic, hardware

4. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (CS:APP)
   http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
   (undergraduate level, basic programming background helpful)

5. David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy: "Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware-Software Interface"
   http://store.elsevier.com/Computer-Organization-and-Design/David-Patterson/isbn-9780124077263/ (undergraduate level)

6. John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson "Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach" http://store.elsevier.com/Computer-Architecture/John-Hennessy/isbn-9780123838728/ (graduate level)

7. J.P. Shen and M.H. Lipasti. "Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors." https://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=624

8. Readings in Computer Architecture: http://booksite.elsevier.com/9781558605398/ (a collection of seminal papers in computer architecture)

9. ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) 25th Anniversary Volume https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2591635&picked=prox

10. Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture - Morgan & Claypool Publishers http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/cac/11/1

Competitions

• The 1st JILP Championship Branch Prediction Competition (CBP-1)
  • http://www.jilp.org/cbp/
• The 1st JILP Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-1)
  • http://www.jilp.org/dpc/
• The 2nd Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-2)
  • http://comparch-conf.gatech.edu/dpc2/

Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism (JILP) Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC)

• 1st JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-1): Cache Replacement Championship (CRC)
  • http://www.jilp.org/jwac-1/
• 2nd JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-2): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-2)
  • http://www.jilp.org/jwac-2/
• 3rd JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-3): Memory Scheduling Championship (MSC)
  • https://www.cs.utah.edu/~rajeev/jwac12/
• 4th JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-4): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-4)
  • http://www.jilp.org/cbp2014/
• 5th JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-5): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-5)
  • http://www.jilp.org/cbp2016/

Conferences

• ASPLOS: International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/asplos/
• Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips - http://www.hotchips.org/archives/
• HPCA: International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture - http://www.hpcaconf.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/hpca/
• ICS: International Conference on Supercomputing - http://www.ics-conference.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ics/
• ISCA: International Symposium on Computer Architecture - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/isca/
• MICRO: International Symposium on Microarchitecture - http://www.microarch.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/micro/
• PACT: International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation - http://pactconf.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/IEEEpact/

Courses

• Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures) | Spring 2015, UC Berkeley, CS61C
  http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/sp15/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XXv-cvA_iCl2-D-FS5mk0jFF6cYSJs_

• The Hardware/Software Interface - University of Washington | Coursera
  https://www.coursera.org/course/hwswinterface Note: the course is not available at this time at Coursera. However, the videos are available from the course website: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse351/

• Onur Mutlu's Lecture Videos and Materials - Carnegie Mellon
  https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/lecture-videos.html
  (Strongly recommended -- both the videos as well as the carefully selected, highly relevant readings!)

  • Undergraduate Computer Architecture Course
  • Graduate Computer Architecture Course
  • Parallel Computer Architecture Course
  • Memory Systems Short Course Materials

• CS/ECE 3810 Computer Organization, University of Utah
  Instructor: Prof. Rajeev Balasubramonian

  • https://www.cs.utah.edu/~rajeev/cs3810/
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm7BxCUdWqZzjZ-jRe73KUfj2GsSS2FPy

• CS/EE 6810 Computer Architecture, University of Utah
  Instructor: Prof. Rajeev Balasubramonian

  • http://www.eng.utah.edu/~cs6810/
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8EC1756A7B1764F6

• Computer Architecture - Princeton University | Coursera
  https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch

• MIT 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Fall 2010

  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2AE32F507F10481
  • https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-172-performance-engineering-of-software-systems-fall-2010/video-lectures/

• Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming (CMU 15-418/618)
  http://15418.courses.cs.cmu.edu/

• MIT 6.004 Computation Structures

  • OCW: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-004-computation-structures-spring-2009/
  • edX Part 1: Digital Circuits - https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-part-1-digital-mitx-6-004-1x-0
  • edX Part 2: Computer Architecture - https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-2-computer-mitx-6-004-2x
  • edX Part 3: Computer Organization - https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-3-computer-mitx-6-004-3x-0

• High Performance Computer Architecture | Udacity by Georgia Institute of Technology

  • https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-computer-architecture--ud007

Emulation & Simulation

• gem5 - http://gem5.org/
  • Learning gem5: http://learning.gem5.org/
    • Book: https://github.com/powerjg/learning_gem5
    • Tutorial: http://learning.gem5.org/tutorial/
      Slides (HPCA 2017): http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/learning_gem5_tutorial.pdf
      Videos (HPCA 2017): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-J9GXT0E7AIidmX_DW7pooRJzjoaJtix
• GPGPU-Sim - http://www.gpgpu-sim.org/ - https://github.com/gpgpu-sim/gpgpu-sim_distribution
• Intel Software Development Emulator (SDE) - https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator
• MARSSx86 - http://marss86.org/
• Multi2Sim - http://www.multi2sim.org/ - https://github.com/Multi2Sim/multi2sim
• Sniper - http://snipersim.org/
• XIOSim - A detailed michroarchitectural x86 simulator - https://github.com/s-kanev/XIOSim
• ZSim - https://github.com/s5z/zsim - http://zsim.csail.mit.edu/tutorial/

Journals & Publications

• ACM SIGARCH - https://www.sigarch.org/
  • Computer Architecture News: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J89
  • Computer Architecture Today: https://www.sigarch.org/blog/
• ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization - http://taco.acm.org/
• Computer Architecture Journals List - http://pascal.eng.uci.edu/info/jounral_list.htm
• MICRO Test of Time (ToT) Award - http://www.microarch.org/Micro-ToT-Award/
• IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) - https://www.computer.org/web/cal
• Influential ISCA Paper Award - https://www.sigarch.org/awards/acm-sigarchieee-cs-tcca-influential-isca-paper-award/