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    Journal: IBM Journal of Research and Development

    Volume 49, Issue 6

    806 -- 0Douglas Balog. Message from the Vice President, BladeCenter Development, IBM Systems and Technology Group
    807 -- 0Thomas M. Bradicich. Preface
    809 -- 822Dhruv M. Desai, Thomas M. Bradicich, David Champion, William Gavin Holland, Benjamin M. Kreuz. BladeCenter system overview
    823 -- 836James E. Hughes, Pravin S. Patel, Ivan R. Zapata, Thomas D. Pahel Jr., Jack P. Wong, Dhruv M. Desai, Bradley D. Herrman. BladeCenter midplane and media interface card
    837 -- 860James E. Hughes, Michael L. Scollard, Rudolf Land, James Parsonese, Christopher C. West, Victor A. Stankevich, Challis L. Purrington, Danny Q. Hoang, Gary R. Shippy, Mitchell L. Loeb, Mark W. Williams, Bruce A. Smith, Dhruv M. Desai. BladeCenter processor blades, I/O expansion adapters, and units
    861 -- 872Lynn S. Fore, David W. Cosby, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades, Charles O. Schulz, Bruce A. Smith, James L. Wooldridge. BladeCenter solutions
    873 -- 886Steven L. Vanderlinden, Bruce O. Anthony, Glenn D. Batalden, Bhaskar K. Gorti, John Lloyd, James Macon Jr., Gregory Brian Pruett, Bruce A. Smith. BladeCenter T system for the telecommunications industry
    887 -- 904Martin J. Crippen, Roland K. Alo, D. Champion, Raymond M. Clemo, Cynthia M. Grosser, N. J. Gruendler, Mohanlal S. Mansuria, Jason Aaron Matteson, Michael S. Miller, Brian A. Trumbo. BladeCenter packaging, power, and cooling
    905 -- 920Steven W. Hunter, Norm C. Strole, David W. Cosby, David M. Green. BladeCenter networking
    921 -- 940William Gavin Holland, Patrick L. Caporale, Don S. Keener, Andrew B. McNeill, T. B. Vojnovich. BladeCenter storage
    941 -- 962Thomas Brey, Brian E. Bigelow, Joseph E. Bolan, Harry Cheselka, Zeynep Dayar, Jeffery M. Franke, D. E. Johnson, Rajiv N. Kantesaria, Edward J. Klodnicki, Sumeet Kochar, Shane M. Lardinois, Carl A. Morrell, Michael S. Rollins, Robert R. Wolford, David R. Woodham. BladeCenter chassis management
    963 -- 976Gregory Brian Pruett, Anthony Abbondanzio, Julianne Bielski, Tushar D. Fadale, Aaron E. Merkin, Ziv Rafalovich, Linda A. Riedle, John W. Simpson. BladeCenter systems management software
    977 -- 988William Joseph Piazza, Richard E. Harper, Martin J. Crippen, Jason Aaron Matteson. BladeCenter thermal diagnostics

    Volume 49, Issue 4-5

    503 -- 0Joel M. Tendler. Preface
    505 -- 522Balaram Sinharoy, Ronald N. Kalla, Joel M. Tendler, Richard J. Eickemeyer, Jody B. Joyner. POWER5 system microarchitecture
    523 -- 532William J. Armstrong, Richard L. Arndt, David C. Boutcher, Robert G. Kovacs, David Larson, Kyle A. Lucke, Naresh Nayar, Randal C. Swanberg. Advanced virtualization capabilities of POWER5 systems
    533 -- 540Paul Mackerras, Thomas S. Mathews, Randal C. Swanberg. Operating system exploitation of the POWER5 system
    541 -- 554Dave W. Victor, John M. Ludden, Richard D. Peterson, Bradley S. Nelson, W. Keith Sharp, James K. Hsu, Bing-Lun Chu, Michael L. Behm, Rebecca M. Gott, Audre D. Romonosky, Steven R. Farago. Functional verification of the POWER5 microprocessor and POWER5 multiprocessor systems
    555 -- 564Harry M. Mathis, Alex E. Mericas, John D. McCalpin, Richard J. Eickemeyer, Steven R. Kunkel. Characterization of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) efficiency in POWER5
    565 -- 580Rebecca M. Gott, Jason Baumgartner, Paul Roessler, S. I. Joe. Functional formal verification on designs of pSeries microprocessors and communication subsystems
    581 -- 588Steven P. Goldman, Lisa M. Mohr, David R. Smith. Using microcode in the functional verification of an I/O chip
    589 -- 604James A. Kahle, Michael N. Day, H. Peter Hofstee, Charles R. Johns, Theodore R. Maeurer, David J. Shippy. Introduction to the Cell multiprocessor
    605 -- 0Katharine G. Frase, David E. Seeger. Preface
    607 -- 620Sung K. Kang, Paul Lauro, Da-Yuan Shih, Donald W. Henderson, Karl J. Puttlitz. Microstructure and mechanical properties of lead-free solders and solder joints used in microelectronic applications
    621 -- 640Peter A. Gruber, Luc Bélanger, Guy P. Brouillette, David H. Danovitch, Jean-Luc Landreville, David T. Naugle, Valerie A. Oberson, Da-Yuan Shih, Chris L. Tessler, Michel R. Turgeon. Low-cost wafer bumping
    641 -- 662Edmund D. Blackshear, Moises Cases, Erich Klink, Stephen R. Engle, Ronald S. Malfatt, Daniel N. deAraujo, Stefano Oggioni, Luke D. Lacroix, Jamil A. Wakil, Nam H. Pham, Gareth G. Hougham, David J. Russell. The evolution of build-up package technology and its design challenges
    663 -- 676Stephen L. Buchwalter, Peter J. Brofman, Claudius Feger, Michael A. Gaynes, Kang-Wook Lee, Luis J. Matienzo, David L. Questad. Effects of mechanical stress and moisture on packaging interfaces
    677 -- 686Edward J. Yarmchuk, Christopher W. Cline, Dominic C. Bruen. Latent defect screening for high-reliability glass-ceramic multichip module copper interconnects
    687 -- 698Dennis G. Manzer, John P. Karidis, Kathleen M. Wiley, Dominic C. Bruen, Christopher W. Cline, Charles Hendricks, Robert N. Wiggin, Yuet-Ying Yu. High-speed electrical testing of multichip ceramic modules
    699 -- 708Claudius Feger, Jeffrey D. Gelorme, Maurice McGlashan-Powell, Dilhan M. Kalyon. Mixing, rheology, and stability of highly filled thermal pastes
    709 -- 724Roger R. Schmidt, E. E. Cruz, Madhusudan K. Iyengar. Challenges of data center thermal management
    725 -- 754John U. Knickerbocker, Paul S. Andry, L. Paivikki Buchwalter, Alina Deutsch, Raymond R. Horton, Keith A. Jenkins, Young Hoon Kwark, Gerald McVicker, Chirag S. Patel, Robert J. Polastre, Christian D. Schuster, Arun Sharma, Sri M. Sri-Jayantha, Christopher W. Surovic, Cornelia K. Tsang, Buck C. Webb, Steven L. Wright, Samuel R. McKnight, Edmund J. Sprogis, Bing Dang. Development of next-generation system-on-package (SOP) technology based on silicon carriers with fine-pitch chip interconnection
    755 -- 776Alan F. Benner, Michael Ignatowski, Jeffrey A. Kash, Daniel M. Kuchta, Mark B. Ritter. Exploitation of optical interconnects in future server architectures
    777 -- 803Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Giovanni Fiorenza, Rick A. Rand. Microminiature packaging and integrated circuitry: The work of E. F. Rent, with an application to on-chip interconnection requirements

    Volume 49, Issue 2-3

    190 -- 0Tilak Agerwala. Message from the Vice President, Systems, IBM Research Division
    191 -- 194George L.-T. Chiu, Manish Gupta, Ajay K. Royyuru. Preface
    195 -- 212Alan Gara, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, George L.-T. Chiu, Paul Coteus, Mark Giampapa, Ruud A. Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Dirk Hoenicke, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Thomas A. Liebsch, Martin Ohmacht, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Todd Takken, Pavlos Vranas. Overview of the Blue Gene/L system architecture
    213 -- 248Paul Coteus, H. Randall Bickford, Thomas M. Cipolla, Paul Crumley, Alan Gara, Shawn Hall, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Alphonso P. Lanzetta, Lawrence S. Mok, Rick A. Rand, Richard A. Swetz, Todd Takken, Paul La Rocca, Christopher Marroquin, Philip R. Germann, Mark J. Jeanson. Packaging the Blue Gene/L supercomputer
    249 -- 254Charles D. Wait. IBM PowerPC 440 FPU with complex-arithmetic extensions
    255 -- 264Martin Ohmacht, Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Alan Gara, Mark Giampapa, Balaji Gopalsamy, Ruud A. Haring, Dirk Hoenicke, David J. Krolak, James A. Marcella, Ben J. Nathanson, Valentina Salapura, Michael E. Wazlowski. Blue Gene/L compute chip: Memory and Ethernet subsystem
    265 -- 276Narasimha R. Adiga, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Paul Coteus, Alan Gara, Mark Giampapa, Philip Heidelberger, Sarabjeet Singh, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Todd Takken, Mickey Tsao, Pavlos Vranas. Blue Gene/L torus interconnection network
    277 -- 288Arthur A. Bright, Ruud A. Haring, Marc Boris Dombrowa, Martin Ohmacht, Dirk Hoenicke, Sarabjeet Singh, James A. Marcella, Robert F. Lembach, Steve M. Douskey, Matthew R. Ellavsky, Christian G. Zoellin, Alan Gara. Blue Gene/L compute chip: Synthesis, timing, and physical design
    289 -- 302Ruud A. Haring, Ralph Bellofatto, Arthur A. Bright, Paul Crumley, Marc Boris Dombrowa, Steve M. Douskey, Matthew R. Ellavsky, Balaji Gopalsamy, Dirk Hoenicke, Thomas A. Liebsch, James A. Marcella, Martin Ohmacht. Blue Gene/L compute chip: Control, test, and bring-up infrastructure
    303 -- 318Michael E. Wazlowski, Narasimha R. Adiga, Daniel K. Beece, Ralph Bellofatto, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Marc Boris Dombrowa, Alan Gara, Mark Giampapa, Ruud A. Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Dirk Hoenicke, Ben J. Nathanson, Martin Ohmacht, Robert Sharrar, Sarabjeet Singh, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, R. Brett Tremaine, Mickey Tsao, Arun R. Umamaheshwaran, Pavlos Vranas. Verification strategy for the Blue Gene/L chip
    319 -- 332Mark Giampapa, Ralph Bellofatto, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Marc Boris Dombrowa, Alan Gara, Ruud A. Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Dirk Hoenicke, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Ben J. Nathanson, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Martin Ohmacht, Valentina Salapura, Pavlos Vranas. Blue Gene/L advanced diagnostics environment
    333 -- 350Subramanian S. Iyer, John E. Barth Jr., Paul C. Parries, James P. Norum, James P. Rice, Lyndon R. Logan, Dennis Hoyniak. Embedded DRAM: Technology platform for the Blue Gene/L chip
    351 -- 366Peter A. Boyle, Dong Chen, Norman H. Christ, Michael A. Clark, Saul D. Cohen, Calin Cristian, Zhihua Dong, Alan Gara, Balint Joo, Chulwoo Jung, Changhoan Kim, Ludmila A. Levkova, Xiaodong Liao, Robert D. Mawhinney, Shigemi Ohta, Konstantin Petrov, Tilo Wettig, Azusa Yamaguchi. Overview of the QCDSP and QCDOC computers
    367 -- 376José E. Moreira, George Almási, Charles Archer, Ralph Bellofatto, Peter Bergner, José R. Brunheroto, Michael Brutman, José G. Castaños, Paul Crumley, Manish Gupta, Todd Inglett, Derek Lieber, David Limpert, Patrick McCarthy, Mark Megerian, Mark P. Mendell, Michael Mundy, Don Reed, Ramendra K. Sahoo, Alda Sanomiya, Richard Shok, Brian E. Smith, Greg G. Stewart. Blue Gene/L programming and operating environment
    377 -- 392Siddhartha Chatterjee, Leonardo R. Bachega, Peter Bergner, Kenneth A. Dockser, John A. Gunnels, Manish Gupta, Fred G. Gustavson, Christopher A. Lapkowski, Gary K. Liu, Mark P. Mendell, Rohini D. Nair, Charles D. Wait, T. J. Christopher Ward, Peng Wu. Design and exploitation of a high-performance SIMD floating-point unit for Blue Gene/L
    393 -- 406George Almási, Charles Archer, José G. Castaños, John A. Gunnels, C. Christopher Erway, Philip Heidelberger, Xavier Martorell, José E. Moreira, Kurt W. Pinnow, Joe Ratterman, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, William Gropp, Brian R. Toonen. Design and implementation of message-passing services for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer
    407 -- 424Xavier Martorell, Nils Smeds, Robert Walkup, José R. Brunheroto, George Almási, John A. Gunnels, Luiz De Rose, Jesús Labarta, Francesc Escalé, Judit Gimenez, Harald Servat, José E. Moreira. Blue Gene/L performance tools
    425 -- 436Yariv Aridor, Tamar Domany, Oleg Goldshmidt, José E. Moreira, Edi Shmueli. Resource allocation and utilization in the Blue Gene/L supercomputer
    437 -- 446Juergen Lorenz, Stefan Kral, Franz Franchetti, Christoph W. Ueberhuber. Vectorization techniques for the Blue Gene/L double FPU
    447 -- 456Robert S. Germain, Yuriy Zhestkov, Maria Eleftheriou, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, Frank Suits, T. J. Christopher Ward, Blake G. Fitch. Early performance data on the Blue Matter molecular simulation framework
    457 -- 464Maria Eleftheriou, Blake G. Fitch, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, T. J. Christopher Ward, Robert S. Germain. Scalable framework for 3D FFTs on the Blue Gene/L supercomputer: Implementation and early performance measurements
    465 -- 474Robert F. Enenkel, Blake G. Fitch, Robert S. Germain, Fred G. Gustavson, A. Martin, Mark P. Mendell, Jed W. Pitera, Michael Pitman, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, Frank Suits, William C. Swope, T. J. Christopher Ward. Custom math functions for molecular dynamics
    475 -- 488Frank Suits, Michael Pitman, Jed W. Pitera, William C. Swope, Robert S. Germain. Overview of molecular dynamics techniques and early scientific results from the Blue Gene project
    489 -- 500Gyan Bhanot, Alan Gara, Philip Heidelberger, Eoin Lawless, James C. Sexton, Robert Walkup. Optimizing task layout on the Blue Gene/L supercomputer

    Volume 49, Issue 1

    1 -- 2. Editor s Note
    3 -- 18Phillipe M. Vereecken, Robert A. Binstead, Hariklia Deligianni, Panayotis C. Andricacos. The chemistry of additives in damascene copper plating
    19 -- 36Thomas P. Moffat, Daniel Wheeler, Monica D. Edelstein, Daniel Josell. Superconformal film growth: Mechanism and quantification
    37 -- 48Alan C. West, Hariklia Deligianni, Panayotis C. Andricacos. Electrochemical planarization of interconnect metallization
    49 -- 64Timothy O. Drews, Sriram Krishnan, Jay Alameda, Dennis Gannon, Richard D. Braatz, Richard C. Alkire. Multiscale simulations of copper electrodeposition onto a resistive substrate
    65 -- 78Thomas L. Ritzdorf, Gregory J. Wilson, Paul R. McHugh, Daniel J. Woodruff, Kyle M. Hanson, Dakin Fulton. Design and modeling of equipment used in electrochemical processes for microelectronics
    79 -- 102Li Sun, Yaowu Hao, Chia-Ling Chien, Peter C. Searson. Tuning the properties of magnetic nanowires
    103 -- 126Emanuel I. Cooper, Christian Bonhôte, Jürgen Heidmann, Yimin Hsu, Philippe Kern, John W. Lam, Murali Ramasubramanian, Neil Robertson, Lubomyr T. Romankiw, Hong Xu. Recent developments in high-moment electroplated materials for recording heads
    127 -- 144Philip G. Emma, Allan Hartstein, Thomas R. Puzak, Viji Srinivasan. Exploring the limits of prefetching
    145 -- 166Richard E. Matick, Stanley Schuster. Logic-based eDRAM: Origins and rationale for use
    167 -- 188Taqi N. Buti, Robert G. McDonald, Zakaria Khwaja, Asit Ambekar, Hung Q. Le, William E. Burky, Bert Williams. Organization and implementation of the register-renaming mapper for out-of-order IBM POWER4 processors
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