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• Overview Articles:
  • The Free Lunch Is Over, March 2005.
  • Serial computing is dead; the future is parallelism, 30 Jun 2008
  • Multicore: state of the play, 18 Aug 2008
  • Multicore Processors, Jan 2009.
• Multicore Design:
  • Implementing Multi-Core: The Devil Is in the Detail
  • More Cores Can Mean Slower Supercomputing (`memory wall' issues)
  • Finding the Door in the Memory Wall, Mar 2009
• Overview of Programming Paradigms and Languages:
  • State-of-the-art for parallel compilers, 02 Sep 2008
  • Will multi-core split HPC into two programming camps?, Juine 2009
  • Does parallel processing require new languages?
  • Three Reasons for Moving to Multicore, Mar 2009.
  • Heterogeneous Processing: Trite or Trend?
  • Q&A: Parallel Programming, Feb 2009
  • Don't get caught with your multicore pants down!, Jan 2009
• Specific Programming Paradigms and Languages:
  • OpenMP
  • Fortress. See also HPCWire article.
  • Intel Gets Ready to Push Ct Out of the Lab, Apr 2009
  • Intel Thread Building Blocks (TBB). See also HPCWire article.
  • Compilers and More: OpenCL Promises and Potential, Sep 2009 Will a new feature make C the answer to the parallel programmers dreams?, Sep 2009
• Processors:
  • SPARC: T2 CoolThreads
  • Intel Positions Nehalem as a Watershed Product, Mar 2009
  • Bill Dally Sees Central Role for the GPU in Supercomputing, Oct 2009
  • Larabee vs Nehalam, Nov 2009.
  • Tilera Talks 100-Core Processor, Nov 2009.
• Operating System Concepts anmd Issues:
  • virtualization: Logical Domains , Xen
  • Application Infrastructure Virtualization: An Essential Element of a Green Data Center
• Other Course Materials
  • OpenSPARC Wiki - Course Materials (Concurrent Computing, Computer Architecture)
  • home pages for other Computer Systems courses: COMP2300, COMP2310, COMP3320, COMP4300

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