Top Picks from the 2008 Computer Architecture Conferences
Joel Emer, Dean Michael Tullsen · IEEE Micro · 2009
The 12 articles in this special issue highlight the following key trends in current computer architecture design and research: the increased importance of thread-level parallelism; the increasing complexity of software and the need for architectures that improve programmability, analyzability, and correctness; the increasing urgency of controlling chip-wide power; and the emerging problem of process variation.