Everything about POWER8

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: POWER8A 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Julius CaesarThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: IBM POWER8 processor core microarchitectureCited 112 times
4. Go sideways: POWER9A closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Power10A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• IBM POWER8 processor core microarchitecture

  B. Sinharoy, J. A. Van Norstrand, R. J. Eickemeyer · 2015 · IBM Journal of Research and Development · 112 citations

• Transactional memory support in the IBM POWER8 processor

  H. Q. Le, G. L. Guthrie, D. E. Williams · 2015 · IBM Journal of Research and Development · 58 citations

• The cache and memory subsystems of the IBM POWER8 processor

  W. J. Starke, J. Stuecheli, D. M. Daly · 2015 · IBM Journal of Research and Development · 50 citations

• The 12-Core POWER8™ Processor With 7.6 Tb/s IO Bandwidth, Integrated Voltage Regulation, and Resonant Clocking

  Eric J. Fluhr, Steve Baumgartner, David Boerstler · 2015 · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 44 citations

• Bandwidth-Aware Dynamic Prefetch Configuration for IBM POWER8

  Carlos Navarro, Josue Feliu, Salvador Petit · 2020 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 15 citations

• IBM POWER8 performance features and evaluation

  A. Mericas, N. Peleg, L. Pesantez · 2015 · IBM Journal of Research and Development · 15 citations

• Quantitative comparison of hardware transactional memory for Blue Gene/Q, zEnterprise EC12, Intel Core, and POWER8

  Takuya Nakaike, Rei Odaira, Matthew Gaudet · 2015 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 14 citations

• IBM POWER8 circuit design and energy optimization

  V. Zyuban, J. Friedrich, D. M. Dreps · 2015 · IBM Journal of Research and Development · 14 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Julius CaesarWilliam Shakespeare · 1656
• The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · 1898
• PoemsAlfred Lord Tennyson · 1827
• Hot, flat, and crowdedThomas L. Friedman, Oliver Wyman · 2008
• Racism, sexism, power, and ideologyColette Guillaumin · 1995
• Energy essentialsN. Saunders, Nigel Saunders · 2004
• The sources of social powerMann, Michael · 1986
• The global conflictC. J. Bartlett · 1984

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