CPSC 418: Suggestions for Further Reading

Contents:

• General sources for papers
• Papers about binary translation
• Papers about caches and main memory
• Papers about disks and secondary storage
• Papers about networks

General sources for papers

• Papers in the textbook that aren't on the reading list.
• Proceedings of the ISCA and ASPLOS conferences: ISCA = International Symposium on Computer Architecture. ASPLOS = Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.
• IEEE Transactions on Computers
• IEEE Micro Magazine

• Communications of the ACM
• IEEE Computer
• Microprocessor Report

Binary Translation

• The HP dynamo project.
  You can also get a general description of dynamo.
• IBM publications on VLIW and binary translation. You can also get a general description of the Daisy project.

Caches and Main Memory

• IEEE Micro, Nov/Dec 1997 (vol 17:6).
• Most year's proceedings for the ASPLOS or ISCA conferenes.
• Mark Hill's publications

Disks and Secondary Storage

• Ann Chervenak's publications (mainly on multimedia file servers).
• Publications from the CMU parallel data lab.
• Publications from the HP Labs storage systems program.
• The Nov. 2000 issue of "The Communications of the ACM" (vol. 43, no. 11) included many papers on emerging disk technologies.

Networks

• IEEE Computer, Nov. 1998 issue.
• IEEE Micro, Jan./Feb. 1999.
• Nick McKeown's publications.