CS/ECE 757 Advanced Computer Architecture II Spring 2012 Section 1 Instructor Mark D. Hill and Assistant Jayneel Gandhi URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs757/Spring2012/

Required Text (available on-line on-campus for free!)

• Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence,
  Synthesis Lectures in Computer Architecture,
  Morgan & Claypool Publishers, May 2011.

Recommended Text (de-emphasized this semester)

• 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. This tome was 757 text until 2004.
• Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.
• Calvin Lin and Lawrence Snyder, Principles of Parallel Programming, Pearson Addison Wesley, 2009. Good reference for parallel programming.
• William Dally and Brian Towles, Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003. Interconnection network reference 1 of 2.
• G. S. Almasi and A. Gottlieb, Highly Parallel Computing, Benjamin/Cummings, 2nd Ed., 1994. A classic parallel architecture reference.
• Jose Duato, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, and Lionel Ni, Interconnection Networks, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002. Interconnection network reference 1 of 2.

Online References

• Introduction to Parallel Computing
  Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture,
  Mark Hill, editor, Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
  Full PDF available on campus.
  E.g., memory consistency & coherence, on-chip networks, transactional memory, warehouse-scale computers, & chip multiprocessors.

• IEEE Xplore (full text from on-campus IP addresses)

• ACM Digital Library (full text from on-campus IP addresses)

• World-Wide Computer Architecture Information

• John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
  Web Site for Computer Architecture.

• Wisconsin CS's Computer Architecture Group

• International Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) gives semiconductor trends.

• Mark D. Hill, CS/ECE 757 Lecture Notes from Spring 2005.

Past 757 Offerings

• Wood's Spring 2011
• Hill's Spring 2010
• Lipasti's Spring 2009
• Smith's Spring 2007

Past Related Offerings

• Wood's Fall 2009 CS 758 on Programming Multicore Processors
• Hill's Fall 2011 CS/ECE 752
• Hill's Fall 2005 CS 838 on Pervasive Parallelism

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)
• David Patterson's Advice to advisors (and advisees)