Here are the list of conferences, symposiums, and journals that you should look into for the term paper for the course. The article of choice must be from the years 1998-2001 (or 2002 if available). I have numbered the locations that you should look into. For 1), I list the conferences/symposiums that are of interest. Do NOT consider any other than those listed below. The acronyms listed are the ones you must look into. The links attached to the acronyms may NOT be so up-to-date and/or does not have links to all previous links. The best way to look for an article would be to start from the link in 1). Links 2 and 3 are those of journals. I would prefer you choose an article from (1) rather than (2),or (3) as these tend to be longer and more difficult to read. However, the choice is up to you.
All papers (I think, hope) from these sources may
also be obtained through the department on-line library http://www.cs.umd.edu/Library/.
You should not need to pay to get these. If you have difficulty retrieving the complete paper, send me mail.
1) http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/conferences.html
ASPLOS (Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems)
HPCA http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/hpca8/
SIGMETRICS http://www.sigmetrics.org/
ISCA (International Symposium of Computer Architecture)
MICRO http://www.microarch.org/micro34/
HotChips http://www.hotchips.org/
PACT (Parallel Architectures and Compiler Techniques)
ICS (International Conference on Supercomputing) http://www.cib.na.cnr.it/ics01/
2) IEEE Transactions on
{Computers, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Software
http://www.computer.org/publications/index.htm#Transactions
3) ACM Journals
Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~toplas/
Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) http://www.acm.org/tocs/