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Cache Oblivious and Cache Aware Data Structure and Algorithms

Cache-Oblivious Algorithms and Data Structures - Erik Demaine (One of the earliest papers in cache oblivious data structures and algorithms that introduces the cache oblivious model in detail and examines static and dynamic cache oblivious data structures built between 2000-2003)
Cache Oblivious B-Trees - Bender, Demaine, Farch-Colton (This paper presents two dynamic search trees attaining near-optimal performance on any hierarchical memory. One of the fundamental papers in the field where both search trees discussed match the optimal search bound of Θ(1+log (B+1)N) memory transfers)
Cache Oblivious Search Trees via Binary Trees of Small Height - Brodal, Fagerberg, Jacob (The data structure discussed in this paper works on the version of [2] but avoids the use o

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B-trees and CPU Caches

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What is the Strict Aliasing Rule and Why do we care?

(OR Type Punning, Undefined Behavior and Alignment, Oh My!)

What is strict aliasing? First we will describe what is aliasing and then we can learn what being strict about it means.

In C and C++ aliasing has to do with what expression types we are allowed to access stored values through. In both C and C++ the standard specifies which expression types are allowed to alias which types. The compiler and optimizer are allowed to assume we follow the aliasing rules strictly, hence the term strict aliasing rule. If we attempt to access a value using a type not allowed it is classified as undefined behavior(UB). Once we have undefined behavior all bets are off, the results of our program are no longer reliable.

Unfortunately with strict aliasing violations, we will often obtain the results we expect, leaving the possibility the a future version of a compiler with a new optimization will break code we th

#Distributed System Course List

##Systems

Cornell CS 614 - Advanced Course in Computer Systems - Ken Birman teaches this course. The readings cover more distributed systems research than is typical (which I am in favour of!). In fact, there's barely anything on traditional internal OS topics like filesystems or memory management. There's some worthwhile commentary at the bottom of the page.
Princeton COS 518 - Advanced Operating Systems - short and snappy reading list of two papers per topic, covering some interesting stuff like buffering inside the operating system, and L4.

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