Hardware

• Agner Fog: Instruction tables — the instruction latencies and throughputs for Intel CPUs
• uops.info — latency, throughput, and port usage data on x86 microarchitectures
• WikiChip: Intel Skylake microarchitecture — used as an example in course material
• WikiChip: Intel Cascade Lake microarchitecture — our current grader hardware

OpenMP

• OpenMP specification

SIMD

• GCC vector extensions
• Clang vector extensions
• posix_memalign — allocating memory with a specific alignment

Low-level programming techniques

• Intel Intrinsics Guide
• GCC: x86 built-in functions
• GCC: other built-in functions
• Sean Eron Anderson: Bit Twiddling Hacks

GPUs

• NVIDIA: CUDA documentation
• Khronos: OpenCL specification
• wgpu — Rust implementation of WebGPU

Rust programming language

• Matias Lindgren: Rust and C++, a performance comparison — Rust implementations of the examples from Chapter 2

More about this course

• PPC statistics