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TDT1: Architecture of Computing Systems

**This compendium is the 2015 version of TDT1** The following papers are curriculum: *Part 1* Modern computing architectures (Lasse): with focus on multicores and energy efficient computing.

- 1.1 **Models and metrics to enable energy-efficiency optimizations**, *Suzanne Rivoire et.al.*, Computer, December 2007 (ITSL = Made available to students thru Its Learning) [Presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1znpJALl4ZqGZ37b8GSsSShTpxqChnYAz_un7OAvgCp4/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=30000&slide=id.p)

- 1.2 **Case Studies of Multi-core Energy Efficiency in Task Based Programs**, *Hallgeir Lien et al*, In proc. of ICT-GLOW ICT againts Global Warming, Vienna Sept 2012 (ITSL) - 1.3 **Feedback-Driven Threading: Power-Efficient and High-Performance Execution of Multithreaded Workloads on CMPs**, *Suleman et.al.*, ASPLOS 2008 (ITSL) - 1.4 **Single-ISA Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures: The Potential for Processor Power Reduction**, *Kumar et.al.*, MICRO 2003 (ITSL) - 1.6 **Optimized Hardware for Suboptimal Software: The Case for SIMD-aware Benchmarks**, *J M Cebrian et. al.*, ISPASS 2014 *Part 2* Unconventional computing architectures (Stefano, www.nichele.eu, nichele@idi.ntnu.no): Current and future research on new alternative computing architectures that go beyond the traditional Turing/von Neumann paradigm: - 2.1 *Moshe Sipper* - **The Emergence of Cellular Computing** (<http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~sipper/papabs/cellcomp.pdf>) - 2.2 *Melanie Mitchell* - **Life and Evolution in Computers** (<http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mm/life-and-evolution.pdf>) - 2.3 *Moshe Sipper et al.* - **A Phylogenetic, Ontogenetic and Epigenetic View of Bio-Inspired Hardware Systems** (<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=585894&tag=1> also available on ITSLEARNING) - 2.4 *Julian Miller et al.* - **Evolution-in-Materio: Evolving Computation in Materials** (<http://www.cartesiangp.co.uk/papers/ei2014-miller.pdf>) - 2.5a **D-Wave Quantum Computer Architecture** (<http://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/D-Wave-brochure-Aug2015B.pdf>) - 2.5b **Programming with D-Wave, Map Coloring Problem** (<http://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Map%20Coloring%20WP2.pdf>) - 2.6 *Lila Kari* - **DNA Computing: Arrival of Biological Mathematics** (<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03024425> also available on ITSLEARNING) # 2.4 Evolution-in-Materio: Evolving Computation in Materials