L1b: Computer Organization and Design Principles: Introduction and Basics (Sep 17)

Required

• "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition" — Chapter 1
  John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson
  Morgan Kaufmann, 2017
  Book: [pdf]

Optional

• "You and Your Research"
  Richard Hamming
  Bell Communications Research Colloquium, 1986
  Paper: [pdf] Video: [youtube]
• "In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit"
  Norman P. Jouppi, Cliff Young, Nishant Patil, David Patterson, Gaurav Agrawal, Raminder Bajwa, Sarah Bates, Suresh Bhatia, Nan Boden, Al Borchers, Rick Boyle, Pierre-luc Cantin, Clifford Chao, Chris Clark, Jeremy Coriell, Mike Daley, Matt Dau, Jeffrey Dean, Ben Gelb, Tara Vazir Ghaemmaghami, Rajendra Gottipati, William Gulland, Robert Hagmann, C. Richard Ho, Doug Hogberg, John Hu, Robert Hundt, Dan Hurt, Julian Ibarz, Aaron Jaffey, Alek Jaworski, Alexander Kaplan, Harshit Khaitan, Daniel Killebrew, Andy Koch, Naveen Kumar, Steve Lacy, James Laudon, James Law, Diemthu Le, Chris Leary, Zhuyuan Liu, Kyle Lucke, Alan Lundin, Gordon MacKean, Adriana Maggiore, Maire Mahony, Kieran Miller, Rahul Nagarajan, Ravi Narayanaswami, Ray Ni, Kathy Nix, Thomas Norrie, Mark Omernick, Narayana Penukonda, Andy Phelps, Jonathan Ross, Matt Ross, Amir Salek, Emad Samadiani, Chris Severn, Gregory Sizikov, Matthew Snelham, Jed Souter, Dan Steinberg, Andy Swing, Mercedes Tan, Gregory Thorson, Bo Tian, Horia Toma, Erick Tuttle, Vijay Vasudevan, Richard Walter, Walter Wang, Eric Wilcox, Doe Hyun Yoon
  in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2017
  Paper: [pdf]

L4c: High Performance Substrate (HPS) and Checkpoint Repair (Sep 28)

Required

• "Implementing Precise Interrupts in Pipelined Processors"
  James E. Smith, Andrew R. Pleszkun
  in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1985
• "HPS, a New Microarchitecture: Rationale and Introduction"
  Yale N. Patt, Wen-mei W. Hwu, Michael C. Shebanow
  in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 1985
• "Checkpoint Repair for Out-of-Order Execution Machines"
  Wen-mei W. Hwu, Yale N. Patt
  in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1987

Optional

• "Critical Issues Regarding HPS, a High Performance Microarchitecture"
  Yale N. Patt, Stephen W. Melvin, Wen-mei W. Hwu, Michael C. Shebanow
  in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 1985
• "Requirements, Bottlenecks, and Good Fortune: Agents for Microprocessor Evolution"
  Yale N. Patt
  Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 89, no. 11, 2001

L6b: Dataflow and VLIW (Oct 8)

Optional

• "DAISY: Dynamic Compilation for 100% Architectural Compatibility"
  Kemal Ebcioğlu, Erik R. Altman
  in Proceedings of the ISCA, 1997
  Paper: [pdf] Web: [link]

General

• "Retrospective: Flipping Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them: An Experimental Study of DRAM Disturbance Errors"
  Onur Mutlu
  in Proceedings of the ISCA@50 25-Year Retrospective: 1996-2020, 2023
  Paper: [pdf]