CS 854, Fall 2013 - Fundamentals and Hardware Trends

• Any recent operating systems textbook, for example (used in CS 350):
  Operating System Concepts. Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. John Wiley and Sons.
  http://www.os-book.com/

• Efficiency Matters!
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1740390.1740400

• Multicore OSes: Looking Forward from 1991, er, 2011
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotosxiii/multicore-oses-looking-forward-1991-er-2011

• Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/216585.216588

• Reflections on the Memory Wall
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/977091.977115

• Scaling, Power, and the Future of CMOS
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2005.1609253

• A First-Order Superscalar Processor Model
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.2004.1310786

• Performance of Multithreaded Chip Multiprocessors And Implications for Operating System Design
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/2005-usenix-annual-technical-conference/performance-multithreaded-chip-multiprocessors

• Welcome to the Jungle (by Herb Sutter)
  http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/

• Power Limitations and Dark Silicon Challenge the Future of Multicore
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2324876.2324879

• Why On-Chip Cache Coherence Is Here to Stay
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2209249.2209269