Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Web page
Operating Systems
UNIX Reference Desk: Information
about UNIX, plus pointers to product, user interface, and technical information.
The comp.os.research FAQ:
Lengthy and worthwhile FAQ covering operating system design issues.
ACM Special Interest Group on Operating
Systems: Information on SIGOPS publications and conferences.
IEEE Computer Society
Task Force on Cluster Computing: An international forum to promote
cluster computing research and education.
The Memory Management
Reference: A good source of documents and links on all aspects of memory
management..
The Operating System Resource
Center: A useful collection of documents and papers on a wide range
of OS topics.
Open Group Research Institute--Operating
System Program: The Open Group (a merger of the Open Software Foundation
and the X/Open Company). Conducts R&D in a wide range of OS areas
ACM Special Interest Group on Operating
Systems: Information on SIGOPS publications and conferences.
General Computer Artchitecture
WWW Computer Architecture Home
Page: A comprehensive index to information relevant to computer architecture
researchers, including architecture groups and projects, technical organizations,
literature, employment, and commercial information.
CPU Info Center: Information
on specific processors, including technical papers, product information,
and latest announcements.
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer
Architecture: Information on SIGARCH activities and publications, good
set of useful links.
IEEE Technical Committee
on Computer Architecture: Copies of TCAA newsletter, useful links.
Intel Technology
Journal: Copies of TCAA newsletter, useful links.
Computer Evolution and Performance
Intel Developer's Page: Intel's
Web page for developers; provides a starting point for accessing Pentium
information.
PowerPC Home Page: IBM's
home page for the PowerPC.
Intel FTP Site: Provides access to a
wide range of Intel documents.
Charles Babbage Institute: Provides
links to a number of web sites dealing with the history of computers.
System Buses
Internal Memory
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The RAM Guide:
Good overview of RAM technology plus a number of useful links.
External Memory
Input/Output
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T10 Home Page:
T10 is a Technical Committee of the National Committee on Information Technology
Standards and is responsible for lower-level interfaces. Its principal
work is the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI).
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SCSI Trade Association: Includes technical
information and vendor pointers.
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Firewire Trade Association: Includes
technical information and vendor pointers.
Computer Arithmetic
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IEEE 754:
The IEEE 754 documents, related publications and papers, and a useful set
of links related to computer arithmetic.
Instruction Sets
Instruction-Level Parallelism and Superscalar Processors
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Merced/IA-64: Intel's
site for the latest info on IA-64 and the Merced processor.
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IMPACT:
This is a site at the University of Illinois, where much of the research
on predicated execution has been done. A number of papers on the subject
are available.
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Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism:
A web-first, paper-based journal or refereed papers.
Parallel Processing