Here is a list of extra reading for this class:

1. Gordon Moore's "Moore's Law" paper
2. Jim Smith - Characterizing computer performance with a single number
3. Intel IA64 (Itanium) Architecture
4. Nvidia G80 Architecture
5. Intel Larrabee ISA
6. Lipasti et al. - Value Locality and Load Value Prediction
7. Jimenez and Lin - Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons
8. How to use performance counters on Intel architectures: Intel System Programming Guide - Chapter 18: Debugging and Performance Monitoring
9. Sohi et al. - Multiscalar processors
10. Renau et al. - OoO Spawn in Thread-Level Speculation Processors
11. Colin Percival - Cache Missing for Fun and Profit (SMT side-channel attack)
12. Mellor-Crummey and Scott - Algorithms for Scalable Synchronization on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
13. Adams - A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization
14. Strauss et al. - Flexible Snooping (helpful for HW4 Q2)
15. McKenney - Memory Barriers: a Hardware View for Software Hackers