Antoniu

    - A deep analysis on how to exploit the benefits of cache memory in our programs can be found in Ulrich Drepper's excellent article  "What every programmer should know about memory".

    - Barham, P., Dragovic, B., Fraser, K., Hand, S., Harris, T., Ho, A., Neugebauer, R., Pratt, I. and Warfield, A., 2003, October. "Xen and the art of virtualization". In ACM SIGOPS operating systems review (Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 164-177). ACM. 

    - Rosenblum, M. and Garfinkel, T., 2005. "Virtual machine monitors: Current technology and future trends". Computer, 38(5), pp.39-47. 

    - Adams, K. and Agesen, O., 2006. "A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization". ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 34(5), pp.2-13.

    - A visualization of Hard Disk Drive components and operation.

Oliver

    - The original papers on CDC 6600, including the Scoreboard and on Tomasulo's algorithm

    - A java applet simulating a Tomasulo pipeline can be found here

    - A couple of background articles to read on hyperthreading:
      first, an Intel Technical Journal special issue on hyperthreading
      and the original 1997 paper on simultaneous multithreading.

    - Some info about ARM A15. 

    - An interesting article about the future of microprocesors, detailing current and future limitations to be found by computer architectures in the near future. 

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