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Mon Jan 5

• ACS (Australian Computer Society) - ICT Professionals Shaping our Future
• Amazon.com: Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Softw are Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design): David Culler, J.P. Singh, Anoop Gupta: Books

Sun Jan 4

• What Your Computer Does While You Wait : Gustavo Duarte: This post takes a look at the speed - latency and throughput - of various subsystems in a modern commodity PC, an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz. I hope to give a feel for the relative speed of each component and a cheatsheet for back-of-the-en velope performance calculations. I?ve tried to show real-world throughputs (the sources are posted as a comment) rather than theoretical maximums. Time units are nanoseconds (ns, 10-9 seconds), milliseconds (ms, 10-3 seconds), and seconds (s). Throughput units are in megabytes and gigabytes per second. Let?s start with CPU and memory, the north of the northbridge:
• Homebrew CPU Home Page
• http://www.com puter.org/port al/cms_docs_co mputer/compute r/homepage/Sep 08/r9kim.pdf
• Ars Technica: RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era - Page 1 - (10/1999)
• Technology Review: Parallel Universe

Sat Jan 3

• PTLsim

Thu Jan 1

• PC Architecture. A book by Michael B. Karbo
• Fundamentals of Parallel Computer Architecture: The world of parallel computers is undergoing a significant change. Parallel computers started as high end supercomputing systems mainly used for scientific computation. Recently, the trend toward a multicore design has enabled an implementation of a parallel computer on a single chip. Parallel computers are now ubiquitous, present in all mainstream architectures for servers, desktops, and embedded systems. Single-chip parallel computers now co-exist with larger parallel computer architectures for servers and supercomputers . The purpose of this book is to bring together concepts, technologies, and implementation s of parallel computer architectures in a package that is suitable for use as an introductory graduate text.

Tue Dec 30

• Upcoming Conferences High-Performan ce & Architecture
• A typical north/southbri dge layout
• Hints for Computer System Design
• Why Microsoft Certification?
• CmpSci 635 Modern Computer Architecture: The goal of this class is for you to develop an understanding of the factors influencing modern microprocessor and parallel processor designs, and a working knowledge of the specific choices made in some current designs. You will also gain an understanding of some of the acceleration mechanisms employed in modern processors, such as superpipelinin g, branch prediction, out-of-order superscalar issue, predication, speculation, multithreading , and multi-core. By the end of the course you should be able to read between the lines of a newly-announce d architectural specification and describe some of the tradeoffs that influenced the design and the implications for software. You should also be able to make well-reasoned predictions of system performance and limitations for specific application scenarios.

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