comparch.md

C++ links: computer architecture

See also: Assembly (Arm), Assembly (RISC-V), Assembly (x86)

Contents

• Books
• Communities
• Competitions
• Conferences
• Courses
• Emulation & Simulation
• Journals & Publications

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Books

• 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
  • https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2591635&picked=prox
• Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture
  • https://dblp.org/db/series/synthesis-cac
  • https://www.springer.com/series/16916

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Communities

• Computer Architecture Community - https://comp-arch-community.slack.com/ (invitation)
• Computer Architecture Student Association
  • https://www.comparchsa.org/
• Computer Science Research and Practice: #architecture
  • Slack Workspace: https://cs-research-practice.slack.com
  • Invitation: https://bit.ly/join-cs-slack

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Competitions

• The 1st JILP Championship Branch Prediction Competition (CBP-1) 2004
  • http://www.jilp.org/cbp/
• The 1st JILP Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-1) 2009
  • http://www.jilp.org/dpc/
• The 2nd Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-2) 2015
  • http://comparch-conf.gatech.edu/dpc2/
• The 2nd Cache Replacement Championship (CRC-2) 2017
  • http://crc2.ece.tamu.edu/
• The 1st Instruction Prefetching Championship (IPC-1) 2020
  • https://research.ece.ncsu.edu/ipc/
• The Next-Generation Championship in Branch Prediction (CBP-NG) 2026
  • https://cbp-ng.bpchamp.com/
  • The CBP-NG Simulator
    • https://github.com/AmpereComputing/cbp-ng/
• The 4th Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-4) 2026
  • https://sites.google.com/view/dpc4-2026
  • https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI/DPC4
  • https://www.sigarch.org/fourth-data-prefetching-championship-part-i/
  • https://www.sigarch.org/an-overview-of-the-fourth-data-prefetching-championship-part-2/

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)
  • http://www.jilp.org/jwac-1/
• 2nd JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-2): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-2)
  • http://www.jilp.org/jwac-2/
• 3rd JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-3): Memory Scheduling Championship (MSC)
  • https://www.cs.utah.edu/~rajeev/jwac12/
• 4th JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-4): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-4)
  • http://www.jilp.org/cbp2014/
• 5th JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-5): Championship Branch Prediction (CBP-5)
  • http://www.jilp.org/cbp2016/
• 6th JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC-6): Championship Value Prediction (CVP-1)
  • https://www.microarch.org/cvp1/

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Conferences

• 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

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Courses

• Computer Architecture - Princeton University / Coursera
  • https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch
• 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
    • https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley-webcast-PL-XXv-cvA_iCl2-D-FS5mk0jFF6cYSJs_
• 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
  • https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-computer-architecture--ud007
• 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)
  • http://15418.courses.cs.cmu.edu/
• 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
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2AE32F507F10481
  • https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-172-performance-engineering-of-software-systems-fall-2010/video-lectures/
• The Hardware/Software Interface - University of Washington
  • http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse351/
• Workshops on Computer Architecture Education
  • https://people.engr.ncsu.edu/efg/wcaes.html
  • https://projects.ncsu.edu/wcae/

Courses: Memory

• Memory Device Technologies and Applications
  • Georgia Tech
  • Fall 2021; Shimeng Yu
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQi8W6dRSW5yM5nmfEwA4aqUr5EHZqw4

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Emulation & Simulation

Readings

• 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
    • https://github.com/mariobadr/survey-wp3
• 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
    • https://github.com/hadibrais/archsim
• A Survey of Computer Architecture Simulation Techniques and Tools
  • IEEE Access 2019
  • Ayaz Akram, Lina Sawalha
  • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8718630

Software

• ChampSim
  • https://github.com/ChampSim/ChampSim
  • The Championship Simulator: Architectural Simulation for Education and Competition
    • 2022
    • Nathan Gober, Gino Chacon, Lei Wang, Paul V. Gratz, Daniel A. Jiménez, Elvira Teran, Seth H. Pugsley, Jinchun Kim
    • https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14324
• 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
• GPGPU-Sim
  • http://www.gpgpu-sim.org/
  • https://github.com/gpgpu-sim/gpgpu-sim_distribution
• 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
  • http://marss86.org/
  • https://github.com/avadhpatel/marss
• Multi2Sim
  • http://www.multi2sim.org/
  • https://github.com/Multi2Sim/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
    • https://airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/
  • 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
  • https://github.com/UoB-HPC/SimEng
  • https://uob-hpc.github.io/SimEng/
• 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
  • https://github.com/s-kanev/XIOSim
• ZSim
  • https://github.com/s5z/zsim
  • http://zsim.csail.mit.edu/tutorial/

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Journals & Publications

• 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/
• ISCA: International Symposium on Computer Architecture
  • Influential ISCA Paper Award
    • https://www.sigarch.org/awards/acm-sigarchieee-cs-tcca-influential-isca-paper-award/
  • 25 years of ISCA (1973-1995)
    • https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/285930
  • ISCA@50 Retrospective: 1996-2020
    • https://www.sigarch.org/isca50-retrospective-1996-2020/
    • https://sites.coecis.cornell.edu/isca50retrospective/
• MICRO Test of Time (ToT) Award - http://www.microarch.org/Micro-ToT-Award/