Reading list

1. Multi/Many-core Architectures

• Challenges and Opportunities in Many-core computing
• Multi-core CPUs, Clusters, and Grid Computing- A Tutorial.pdf
• Chip Multiprocessor Architecture: Techniques to Improve Throughput and Latency

2. Caching/Memory

• Cache-Fair Thread Scheduling for Multicore Processors
• Memory Management on Chip-MultiProcessors with on-chip Memories
• Fair cache sharing and partitioning
• Miss Rate Prediction across All Program Inputs
• Transactional Memory
• The double paging anomaly
• Memory Access Scheduling Schemes for Systems with Multi-Core Processors
• Towards Practical Page Coloring-based Multi-core Cache Management

3. Power Management

• An Analysis of Efficient Multi-Core Global Power Management Policies: Maximizing Performance for a Given Power Budget
• Dynamic Repartitioning of Real-Time Schedule on a Multicore Processor for Energy Efficiency
• Analysis of dynamic power management on multi-core processors
• Optimal Power Allocation in Server Farms
• Throughput of multi-core processors under thermal constraints
• Approximation algorithm for the temperature-aware scheduling problem
• Approximation algorithms for power minimization of earliest dealine first and rate monotonic schedules
• Performance and Power Impact of Issue-width in Chip-Multiprocessor Cores

4. Scheduling

• Evaluation of Multi-Core Scheduling Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Processing Architectures
• Process Scheduling Challenges in the Era of Multi-core Processors
• Real-Time Scheduling on Multicore Platforms
• Parallel Task Scheduling on Multicore Platforms
• Reinventing Scheduling for Multicore Systems
• A Simple Power-Aware Scheduling for Multicore Systems when Running Real-Time Applications
• Analyzing the Effectiveness of Multicore Scheduling Using Performance Counters

5. Theoretical papers

• Machine scheduling with resource dependent processing times
• Resource constrained scheduling on multiple machines
• Scheduling jobs with time-resource tradeoff via nonlinear programming
• An approximation algorithm for identical parallel machine scheduling with resource dependent processing times
• Scheduling Parallel Dedicated Machines with the Speeding-Up Resource

Online Resources

• http://www.multicoreinfo.com/
• Multicore Bibliography Portal
• CMP Portal at UC Berkeley