CS/ECE 757 Advanced Computer Architecture II Spring 2005 Section 1 Instructor Mark D. Hill and T. A. Bhavesh Mehta URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs757/Spring2005/

Recommended Texts

  John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson,
  Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Third Edition, 2002.
  (Especially Chapter 6 and 8)

  Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi
  Readings in Computer Architecture
  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.
  (Especially Chapter 9)

Neither are at the bookstore for CS/ECE 757, because I assume that most of you purchased them last semester for CS/ECE 752.

Assigned Readings

• Reading List for Exam 1
• Reading List for Exam 2

Offline References

• David Culler and J. P. Singh with Anoop Gupta, Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998. A (too) thorough reference that was the CS/ECE 757 text from 1998 to 2004. This tome is a good buy if you are staying in computer architecture.
• G. S. Almasi and A. Gottlieb, Highly Parallel Computing, Benjamin/Cummings, 2nd Ed., 1994.
• William Dally and Brian Towles, Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003.
• Jose Duato, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, and Lionel Ni, Interconnection Networks, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002.
• Harold Stone, High-Performance Computer Architecture, Addison-Wesley, 3rd Ed., 1993.

Online References

• John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
  Companion Web Site for Computer Architecture.
• Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi,
  Companion Web Site for Readings in Computer Architecture.
• Wisconsin CS's Computer Architecture Group
• World-Wide Computer Architecture Information
• International Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) gives semiconductor trends.
• ACM Digital Library (full text from on-campus IP addresses)
• IEEE Xplore (full text from on-campus IP addresses)
• 1973-2003 International Symposia on Computer Architecture (ISCA) are at /afs/cs.wisc.edu/p/multifacet/extpapers/isca73-03/
  for users logged into Wisconsin CS accounts (c.f., data/1984/p301-emer.pdf).