C++ links: computer architecture
See also: Assembly (Arm), Assembly (RISC-V), Assembly (x86)
- The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
- Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From NAND to Tetris
- Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken
- 2nd Edition; 2021
- http://www.nand2tetris.org/
- (no prerequisites)
- Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits & Gates to C/C++ & Beyond
- Yale Patt and Sanjay Patel
- (3rd Edition; 2020)
- https://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/introduction-computing-systems-bits-gates-c-c-beyond-patt-patel/M9781260150537.html
- (no prerequisites, freshmen year level)
- Digital Design and Computer Architecture
- ARM Edition (1st Edition; 2015): https://www.elsevier.com/books/digital-design-and-computer-architecture/harris/978-0-12-800056-4
- RISC-V Edition (1st Edition; 2021): https://www.elsevier.com/books/digital-design-and-computer-architecture-risc-v-edition/harris/978-0-12-820064-3
- (background; no prerequisites beyond basic programming) digital logic, hardware
- Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (CS:APP)
- http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
- (undergraduate level, basic programming background helpful)
- Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware-Software Interface
- David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
- RISC-V Edition (2nd Edition; 2020) - https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-organization-and-design-risc-v-edition/patterson/978-0-12-820331-6
- (undergraduate level)
- Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
- John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson
- 6th Edition; 2017 - https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architecture/hennessy/978-0-12-811905-1
- (graduate level)
- Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors
- J.P. Shen and M.H. Lipasti
- 2005
- https://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=624
- Readings in Computer Architecture
- 1999
- Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/readings/www/
- (a collection of seminal papers in computer architecture)
- ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) 25th Anniversary Volume 2014
- Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture - Morgan & Claypool Publishers
- Computer Architecture Community - https://comp-arch-community.slack.com/ (invitation)
- Computer Architecture Student Association
- Computer Science Research and Practice:
#architecture- Slack Workspace: https://cs-research-practice.slack.com
- Invitation: https://bit.ly/join-cs-slack
- The 1st JILP Championship Branch Prediction Competition (CBP-1)
- The 1st JILP Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-1)
- The 2nd Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-2)
- The 2nd Cache Replacement Championship (CRC-2)
- The 1st Instruction Prefetching Championship (IPC-1)
Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism (JILP) Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC)
- 1st JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-1): Cache Replacement Championship (CRC)
- 2nd JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-2): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-2)
- 3rd JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-3): Memory Scheduling Championship (MSC)
- 4th JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-4): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-4)
- 5th JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-5): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-5)
- 6th JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-6): Championship Value Prediction (CVP-1)
- ASPLOS: International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - https://asplos-conference.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/asplos/
- Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips - http://www.hotchips.org/archives/
- HPCA: International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture - http://www.hpca-conf.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/hpca/
- ICS: International Conference on Supercomputing - http://www.ics-conference.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ics/
- ISCA: International Symposium on Computer Architecture - https://iscaconf.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/isca/
- MICRO: International Symposium on Microarchitecture - http://www.microarch.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/micro/
- PACT: International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation - http://pactconf.org/ - http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/IEEEpact/
- WikiCFP (Calls For Papers) - http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=computer%20architecture
- Computer Architecture - Princeton University / Coursera
- CS/ECE 3810 Computer Organization - University of Utah
- Prof. Rajeev Balasubramonian
- https://www.cs.utah.edu/~rajeev/cs3810/
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm7BxCUdWqZzjZ-jRe73KUfj2GsSS2FPy
- CS/EE 6810 Computer Architecture, University of Utah
- Prof. Rajeev Balasubramonian
- http://www.eng.utah.edu/~cs6810/
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8EC1756A7B1764F6
- Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures) - UC Berkeley
- http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/
- Computer Science 61C, 001 - Spring 2015
- High-performance and Embedded Computer Architecture
- TU Berlin, Embedded Systems Architecture; Prof. Juurlink
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSsA8oxlSBjidJsSPdpjsQ/
- High Performance Computer Architecture - Georgia Institute of Technology / Udacity
- Onur Mutlu's Lecture Videos and Materials - Carnegie Mellon, ETH
- http://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/lecture-videos.html
- (Strongly recommended -- both the videos as well as the carefully selected, highly relevant readings!)
- Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming (CMU 15-418/618)
- MIT 6.004 Computation Structures
- https://6004.mit.edu/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1DcxXg6GkAcp2zk2w7U6qQ
- OCW: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-004-computation-structures-spring-2009/
- edX
- edX Part 1: Digital Circuits - https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-part-1-digital-mitx-6-004-1x-0
- edX Part 2: Computer Architecture - https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-2-computer-mitx-6-004-2x
- edX Part 3: Computer Organization - https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-3-computer-mitx-6-004-3x-0
- MIT 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Fall 2010
- The Hardware/Software Interface - University of Washington
- Workshops on Computer Architecture Education
- Memory Device Technologies and Applications
- Georgia Tech
- Fall 2021; Shimeng Yu
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQi8W6dRSW5yM5nmfEwA4aqUr5EHZqw4
- A Look at Computer Architecture Evaluation Methodologies
- Mario Badr and Natalie Enright Jerger
- Workshop on Pioneering Processor Paradigms (WP3) 2018
- http://mariobadr.com/pdfs/2018-02-25-WP3-paper.pdf
- http://mariobadr.com/pdfs/2018-02-25-WP3-presentation.pdf
- Survey on Computer Architecture Evaluation Methodologies
- A Survey of Cache Simulators
- ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 2019
- Hadi Brais, Rajshekar Kalayappan, Preeti Ranjan Panda
- https://homepages.iitdh.ac.in/~rajshekar.k/papers/Survey_Of_Cache_Simulators.pdf
- A survey on architectural simulators focused on CPU caches
- A Survey of Computer Architecture Simulation Techniques and Tools
- IEEE Access 2019
- Ayaz Akram, Lina Sawalha
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8718630
- gem5 - http://gem5.org/
- Learning gem5: http://learning.gem5.org/
- Book: https://github.com/powerjg/learning_gem5
- Tutorial: http://learning.gem5.org/tutorial/
- Slides (HPCA 2017): http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/learning_gem5_tutorial.pdf
- Videos (HPCA 2017): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-J9GXT0E7AIidmX_DW7pooRJzjoaJtix
- Learning gem5: http://learning.gem5.org/
- GPGPU-Sim
- Intel Software Development Emulator (SDE) - https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator
- MacSim: Simulator for Heterogeneous Architecture
- a cycle-level, heterogeneous architecture simulator for x86 and NVIDIA PTX instructions
- http://comparch.gatech.edu/hparch/macsim.html
- https://github.com/gthparch/macsim
- MARSSx86
- Multi2Sim
- QEMU: a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer
- https://www.qemu.org/
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
- QEMU internals: A series of posts about QEMU internals
- QEMU, a Fast and Portable Dynamic Translator
- 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
- Fabrice Bellard
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/2005-usenix-annual-technical-conference/qemu-fast-and-portable-dynamic-translator
- SimEng (the Simulation Engine): a framework for building modern cycle-accurate processor simulators
- Sniper - http://snipersim.org/
- Structural Simulation Toolkit (SST) - http://sst-simulator.org/
- https://github.com/sstsimulator
- Modsim2017 Presentation: http://hpc.pnl.gov/modsim/2017/Presentations/SST_Modsim17.pdf
- SST components overview (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5gDYy9aqf4
- ISCA 2015 Tutorial: https://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1257684
- XIOSim - A detailed microarchitectural x86 simulator
- ZSim
- ACM SIGARCH - https://www.sigarch.org/
- Computer Architecture News: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J89
- Computer Architecture Today: https://www.sigarch.org/blog/
- ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization - http://taco.acm.org/
- Andy Glew's CompArch wiki - https://sites.google.com/site/paulclaytonplace/andy-glew-s-comparch-wiki
- Computer Architecture Journals List - http://pascal.eng.uci.edu/info/jounral_list.htm
- IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) - https://www.computer.org/web/cal
- IEEE Micro - https://publications.computer.org/micro/
- IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Awards - http://ieeetcca.org/awards/
- Influential ISCA Paper Award - https://www.sigarch.org/awards/acm-sigarchieee-cs-tcca-influential-isca-paper-award/
- MICRO Test of Time (ToT) Award - http://www.microarch.org/Micro-ToT-Award/