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Castellano, B. (2012). How does word length affect the performance and operation of a CPU?

This resource describes how word size increases performance.

Davis, M. (2014) The effect of clock speed, word length and bus width on the performance of a computer system.

This resource describes different methods of increasing computer performance.

Patterson, D. (2018). 50 Years of computer architecture: From the mainframe CPU to the domain-specific TPU and the open RISC-V instruction set [Conference presentation]. 2018 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), Solid-State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 27–31.

This resource covers the history of computer word and instruction sizes.

Han, P., Wang, S., & Leung, K. K. (2020). Capacity analysis of distributed computing systems with multiple resource types [Conference presentation]. 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 1–6.

This resource covers considerations on capacity planning for distributed resource management in cloud computing platforms and services.