CPSC 418: Suggestions for Further Reading

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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

Most of these are available in the CICSR/CS reading room. Now that UBC has an electronic subscription to all IEEE journals and magazines, the reading room no longer subscribes to the paper ones. From any machine in the .ubc.ca domain you can go to IEEE Xplore to browse journals, magazines and conference proceedings and download papers in pdf format.

Papers in the reader 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

The following sources include many good papers, but also some that lack for substance. They are worth looking at, but use good judgement:

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.