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Conferences
Category 1:

1. USENIX ATC
   June 2009
2. OSDI
   Dec 2008
3. ISCA
4. SOSP
5. HPCA
   Jan 2010
6. EuroSys
   April 2010
7. SIGMETRICS
   June 2009
8. ASPLOS
   March 2010
9. PACT
10. FAST
    Feb 2010, Feb 2011

Category 2:

1. ICDCS
   June 2009
2. PPoPP
   Jan 2010
3. SuperComputing

Related Conferences/Workshops

1. HotOS

People

1. Luiz André Barroso, at Google
2. David Patterson, at UC Berkeley: RAID

Reading List: click

Multicore:
Introductory

1. Introduction to Multiprocessor Synchronization: http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs176/; The lectures and homeworks are both good.
2. Multicore Programming, MIT lectures.

Papers on actual Industry Multicore processors (from old to new)

1. J. M. Tendler et al. POWER4 system microarchitecture. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 46(1):5–26, 2002.
2. P. Kongetira et al. Niagara: A 32-Way Multithreaded SPARC Processor. IEEE Micro, 25(2):21–29, 2005.
3. M. Tremblay et al. A Third-Generation 65nm 16-Core 32-Thread Plus 32-Scout-Thread CMT SPARC Processor. In ISSCC, 2008.