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CS252: Reading Assignment #3
Due Monday, September 22nd
For Monday, read the following four papers:
  1. G. Amdahl, G. Blaauw, and F Brooks, Jr. "Architecture of the IBM System / 360," IBM Journal, April 1964

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  2. R. Tomasulo, An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting Multiple Arithmetic units, IBM Journal, January 1967

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  3. Jack Dennis and David Misunas, "A Preliminary Architecture for a Basic Data-Flow Processor", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1975. SSee ISCA Retrospective

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  4. Gregory papadopoulos and David Culler, "Monsoon: an Explicit Token-Store Architecture", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1990.   See ISCA Retrospective

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Please write 3 paragraphs: one for paper #1, another for paper #2, and one for papers #3 and #4.  Note that you are only writing 3 paragraphs.

Note: the last two of these are from ISCA and are in the ISCA retrospective.

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