Research Directions:

• Hexagon of puzzles
  • Running single-threaded programs efficiently on this sea of cores
  • Managing energy envelope efficiently
  • Allocating shared cache efficiently
  • Allocating shared off-chip bandwidth and memory banks efficiently
  • Making parallel programming easy
    • Transactional
    • Speculative parallelization
  • Verification of hardware and parallel software and tolerate faults

References:

• A good reading is Parallel Computer Architecture by Culler, Singh with Gupta
  • Caveat: does not talk about multi-core, but introduces the general area of shared memory multiprocessors
• Papers
  • Check out the most recent issue of Intel Technology Journal
    • http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/
    • http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/archive.htm
  • Conferences: ASPLOS, ISCA, HPCA, MICRO, PACT
  • Journals: IEEE Micro, IEEE TPDS, ACM TACO