2.1. Commodity Microprocessors
CPU Info Center at Berkeley (http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/)
Offermann's chip list (http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~offerman/chiplist.html).
Great microprocessors of the past and present (http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko/cpu.html)
Microcomputer History (http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist.htm)
(http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/fms/comp) A review of CPU history
Microprocessor instruction set cards (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/cards.html)
Silicon technology roadmap (http://www.sematech.org/public/roadmap/index.htm), by Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
Sematech Semiconductor Dictionary
(http://www.sematech.org/member/division/its/dict/home.htm)
CHIPS Semiconductor Desk Reference (http://www.marshall.com/pub/chips/chipmenu.htm), from Marshall Industries
Semiconductor subway (http://www-mtl.mit.edu/semisubway.html), at MIT
Comparison table of the major embedded microprocessors
(http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/embed/esum.html),
at UC-Berkeley
The Transputer Archival (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/transputer.html)
680x0
Centaur Technology's Products page (http://www.centtech.com/prodinfo/welcome.html), has information on the IDT-C6 processor
Cyrix On-Line Products page (http://www.cyrix.com/), has 6x86MX, 6x86, and MediaGX processors information
IBM x86 Microprocessors page (http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/x86/), has 6x86MX, 6x86L, and 6x86 processors information
IMS products site (http://www.imes.com/), has information on its Meta 6000 processors
Intel products site (http://www.intel.com/procs/index.htm), has links to 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, and Pentium II
DEC's StrongARM (http://www.digital.com/semiconductor/strongarm/strongar.htm)
IMS products site (http://www.imes.com/), has information on its Meta Expresso Java chip
QED products site (http://www.qedinc.com/prodinfo.html)
IDT RISC microprocessors site (http://www.idt.com/risc/)
HP Computing Technology page (http://www.wsg.hp.com/wsg/strategies/strategy.html)
Motorola PowerPC home page (http://www.mot.com/PowerPC/)
Motorola PowerPC Library (http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/library/library.html)
HAL (http://www.hal.com/) HAL Scalable Servers (http://www.hal.com/ssd.htm)
Fujitsu SPARClite Embedded Microprocessors
(http://www.fujitsumicro.com/products/embctrl/embctrl.html)
Fujitsu TurboSPARC Microprocessors
(http://www.fujitsumicro.com/sparcupgrade/sparcmicro.html)
Asynchronous Logic home page (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/amulet/async/index.html)
The IMPACT group (http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/Impact/index.html) at UIUC is conducting many projects in advanced processors architecture
Chromatic's MpactVLIW architectures media engine
(http://www.mpact.com/Technical/specs.html)
VLIW SIMD
MOST project at McGill (http://www-acaps.cs.mcgill.ca/~jwang/MOST-Web/)
Chromatic's MpactVLIW architectures media engine
(http://www.mpact.com/Technical/specs.html)
MOST Project (http://www-acaps.cs.mcgill.ca/~jwang/MOST-Web/)
Earth project (http://www-acaps.cs.mcgill.ca/info/EARTH/index.html)
Tera Computer Company Homepage (http://www.tera.com/tera.html)
Rishiyur S. Nikhil's Home Page on multithreading architecture
(http://www.research.digital.com/CRL/personal/nikhil/home.html)
Simultaneous Multithreading (http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/smt/)
Tera Computer Company (http://www.tera.com/tera.html)
CERN high-speed interconnect Project (http://www.cern.ch/HSI/) links to ATM, DS/HS link, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, HIPPI, SCI, etc.
Essential Communications home page (http://www.esscom.com/) on gigabit networking, especially HiPPI and gigabit Ethernet.
Univ. of New Hampshire, InterOperability Lab (http://www.iol.unh.edu/sitemap/index.html) standard network technology, including tutorials, consortiums, and test results.
Doorns homepage (http://www.wco.com/~schelto/) Fibre Channel, HiPPI, Gigabit Ethernet.
The advanced telecommunications program at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
(http://www.llnl.gov/atp/)
has pointers to leading edge high-speed networks.
Switch
DEC Gigaswitch (http://www.networks.digital.com/)
Giga Labs Ethernet and HiPPI switches (http://www.gigalabs.com/)
Myrinet (http://www.myri.com)
VITA (VMEbus International Trade Association) (http://www.vita.com/)
The ATM Consortium (http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/atm/index.html)
The ATM Web Knowledgebase (http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/dpk/ATM_Knowledgebase/ATM-technology.html)
Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet Web site provides 10-Mbps
Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet (802.3u), and the Gigabit
Ethernet (802.3z)
(http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/ethernet-home.html)
The Fast Ethernet Consortium (http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/fe/index.html)
Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (http://www.gigabit-ethernet.org/)
IEEE 802.3z Task Force (http://www.wco.com/~schelto/Ethernet/gigabit.htm)
ANSI X3T12 (FDDI) Home Page (http://sholeh.nswc.navy.mil/x3t12/)
Fibre Channel Ass. Membership Listing (http://www.fibrechannel.com/members.html)
HIPPI standards ctivities home page (http://www.cic-5.lanl.gov/~det/)
SCIzzL home page (http://sunrise.scu.edu/)
SCI for Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Oslo (http://www.fys.uio.no/internat/sci/sci.html)
SCI home page (http://baugi.ifi.uio.no/~sci/endex.html)
SCI News (http://www.dolphinics.no/SCI_News/SCI_News.html) at Dolphin Interconnect Solutions (http://www.dolphinics.no/Dolphin.html)
Memory System Project at DEC
(http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/projects/memorySystems/MemorySys.html)
DSM Home Page (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~keleher/dsm.html) has links to dozens of pages
DSM bibliography (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~rasit/dsmbiblio.html)
RPM Project (http://www.usc.edu/dept/ceng/dubois/RPM.html)
Hardware DSM -- CC-NUMA
Avalanche (http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/avalanche/)
Cashmere (http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/kthanasi/cashmere.html)
DICE (http://www-mount.ee.umn.edu/~dice/)
FLASH (http://www-flash.stanford.edu/)
NUMAchine at the Univ. of Toronto
(http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/numachine.html)
Data Diffusion Machine (http://www.pact.srf.ac.uk/DDM/)
I-ACOMA (http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma)
Simple COMA (/index.html)
Another Simple COMA (http://www.sics.se/~ans/simple-coma/)
Cilk (http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~cilk)
The C Region Library (CRL) (http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/crl/) an all-software DSM system at MIT Lab. for Computer Science.
The Coherent Virtual Machine (CVM) (http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/cvm/) (Maryland), a software DSM supporting multiple protocols, multithreading, and limited fault tolerance.
DiSOM (http://cretina.inesc.pt/documents/) (Distributed Shared Object Memory), memory consistency models, data replication, security, and optimized checkpointing algorithms.
Distributed Filaments (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/filament/)
Emerald (http://www.diku.dk/research-groups/distlab/emerald/)
GMS (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/gms/index.html)
KOAN/Fortran-S (http://www.irisa.fr/EXTERNE/projet/caps/HTML/Fortran-S_US.html)
Larchant (http://www-sor.inria.fr/SOR/projects/larchant.html)
Locust (/index.html)
Midway (http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/midway)
Millipede (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/Labs/Millipede)
Mirage (http://olympia.ucr.edu/)
ORCA (http://www.cs.vu.nl//vakgroepen/cs/orca.html)
PAMS (http://www.myrias.ab.ca/)
Phosphorus (http://www-inf.enst.fr/~demeure/hosphorus/contents.html)
Quarks (/index.html) (Utah), user-level library that supports DSM on a Unix workstation cluster.
SAM (http://suif.stanford.edu/~scales/sam.html)
SHRIMP (/index.html)
Treadmarks (http://softlib.rice.edu/CITI/comp~sys/software/treadmarks.html)
Vote (http://www.first.gmd.de/vote) (GMD First) provides runtime support for both message-passing and shared memory communication within a single address space.
Wind Tunnel (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~wwt) at Univ. of Wisconsin
Some documents of pthreads at MIT (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/pthreads)
Pthread at MIT (/index.html).
OSF ftp site (file://riftp.osf.org/pub/) has papers on ANDF, task migration, real time, and threads, including migrating and distributed threads, and source codes
Quick Threads (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pardo/papers.d/thread.html) at Washington
Pthread in IBM AIX 4.1 (/index.html)
Threads at Sun (http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/Developer-products/sig/threads/index.html)
Documentation on Solaris2.x (http://www.ece.uc.edu/sun-tips.html)
Georgia Tech Cthreads (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/systems/projects/Cthreads/)
MIT Cilk (/index.html), a user-level thread library
Univ. of Florida Technical Reports (http://www.cis.ufl.edu/cis/tech-reports/tr94-abstracts.html).
Portable Thread Synchronization Using C++ (http://world.std.com/~jimf/c++sync.html) classes for portable multithreaded applications on Win32 and Solaris
High-performance synchronization papers and codes.
(http://www.cs.rochester.edu/users/faculty/scott/synchronization.html).
Berkeley Active Message page (http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/AM/active_messages.html)
Cornell Active Message page (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/CAM/)
Cornell/NYNET ATM Cluster Project (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/ATM/), has an active message implementation
Active Messages for SP-2 (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/CAM/sp2.html) at Cornell
Active Messages, J-Machine (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/Papers/ppopp95-abs.html)
Active Messages for the Meiko CS-2 (http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/TRs/TRCS94-25.html)
PUMA/SUNMOS (http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~rolf/puma/puma.html)
SHRIMP Base Library (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/shrimp/htMan/SBLmodel.html)
SHRIMP VMMC (/index.html)