CS/ECE 757 Advanced Computer Architecture II Spring 2008 Section 1 Instructor Mark D. Hill and T. A. Jayaram Bobba URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs757/Spring2008/

Recommended Text

  John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson,
  Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Fourth Edition, 2007.
  (Especially Chapter 4 and Appendix E)

Assigned Readings

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

• Mark D. Hill, CS/ECE 757 Lecture Notes from Spring 2005.
• John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Web Site for AQA 4th-edition .
• Mark D. Hill, editor, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, Morgan & Claypool Publishers (flyer).
• 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).

Past 757 Offerings

• Hill's Spring 2005 CS/ECE 757
• Smith's Spring 2007 CS/ECE 757

Past Related Offerings

• Wood's Fall 2007 CS 758 on Programming Multicore Processors
• Hill's Fall 2005 CS 838 on Pervasive Parallelism
• Wood's Fall 2003 CS 838 on Chip Multiprocessors

Miscellanea

• Join Wisconsin's Computer Architecture Mailing List
• My Oral Presentation Advice, including David Patterson's How to Give a Bad Talk
• K. Compton and M.L.Chang's Terrible Presentations (...and how to not give one)