CS/EE6760
Computer Architecture Resources
Local:
Architecture Seminars
,
Fridays at 3pm in CCB 354
CoC's
Architecture group
ECE's
PICA
group
Best on-line starting points:
The
Computer Architecture Page
at Wisconsin
CPU Info Center
from Tom Burd at Berkeley
Top conferences:
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
(
ISCA-26
will be in Atlanta!)
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
Books:
Mike Johnson, Superscalar Microprocessor Design, Prentice Hall, 1991.
Nice superscalar/ILP reference.
David Culler, J.P. Singh and Anoop Gupta,
Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach
, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
Brand new; probable textbook for CS/EE6761.
Daniel Lenoski and Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing, Academic Press, 1995.
DASH perspective.
Siewiorek, Bell and Newell, Computer Structures: Principles and Examples, McGraw-Hill, 1982.
Rich historical background.
Organizations:
ACM's
Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH)
IEEE's
Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA)
Prior incarnations of 6760 (e.g. for old exams):
Winter 1998
(
Prof. Ramachandran
).
Fall 1996
(
Prof. Chervenak
). See also Prof Chervenak's
Fall 1998 CS/EE4760
I have no prior exams to offer, but you can get a sense of my exam style from my
Spring 1998 CS3760
(Computer Organization) class.
Ken Mackenzie
, $Date: 1998/10/22 20:50:53 $