Computer Architecture 5th Ed - A Quantitative Approach

Informationen zum Autor John L. Hennessy is the tenth president of Stanford University! where he has been a member of the faculty since 1977 in the departments of electrical engineering and computer science. Hennessy is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM; a member of the National Academy of Engineering! the National Academy of Science! and the American Philosophical Society; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his many awards are the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award for his contributions to RISC technology! the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award! and the 2000 John von Neumann Award! which he shared with David Patterson. He has also received seven honorary doctorates. David A. Patterson has been teaching computer architecture at the University of California! Berkeley! since joining the faculty in 1977! where he holds the Pardee Chair of Computer Science. His teaching has been honored by the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California! the Karlstrom Award from ACM! and the Mulligan Education Medal and Undergraduate Teaching Award from IEEE. Patterson received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award and the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to RISC! and he shared the IEEE Johnson Information Storage Award for contributions to RAID. He also shared the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the C & C Prize with John Hennessy. Like his co-author! Patterson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! the Computer History Museum! ACM! and IEEE! and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering! the National Academy of Sciences! and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. He served on the Information Technology Advisory Committee to the U.S. President! as chair of the CS division in the Berkeley EECS department! as chair of the Computing Research Association! and as President of ACM. This record led to Distinguished Service Awards from ACM and CRA. Klappentext 5th edition. Zusammenfassung The computing world today is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation today. This title focuses on this dramatic shift! exploring the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones! laptops! and other devices. ...

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Printed TextChap 1: Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and AnalysisChap 2: Memory Hierarchy DesignChap 3: Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its ExploitationChap 4: Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU ArchitecturesChap 5: Multiprocessors and Thread-Level ParallelismChap 6: The Warehouse-Scale ComputerApp A: Instruction Set PrinciplesApp B: Review of Memory HierarchyApp C: Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts
OnlineApp D: Storage SystemsApp E: Embedded SystemsApp F: Interconnection NetworksApp G: Vector ProcessorsApp H: Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPICApp I: Large-Scale Multiprocessors and Scientific ApplicationsApp J: Computer Arithmetic App K: Survey of Instruction Set ArchitecturesApp L: Historical Perspectives

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"What has made this book an enduring classic is that each edition is not an update, but an extensive revision that presents the most current information and unparalleled insight into this fascinating and fast changing field. For me, after over twenty years in this profession, it is also another opportunity to experience that student-grade admiration for two remarkable teachers." --From the Foreword by Luiz André Barroso, Google, Inc.

"This is an academic textbook that is also suitable for a far broader readership. Each chapter is organised in the same structure, with the main content supported by case studies and exercises. Having read this book I now have a far better understanding of why processors from all the different designers and manufacturers are so different. Memory hierarchies, multicore architectures and compiler optimisation are all covered in great detail. I was particularly interested in their discussion of graphical processing units and how they are suitable for far more than just graphical workloads. What is great about this book is that it moves with the times. There is a lot of content on processors for mobile computing, and power usage is a pervasive theme. At the other extreme there is an excellent chapter on warehouse scale computers, which offers tremendous insight into the cloud computing infrastructure provided by Google, Amazon and others. If your job has anything to do with IT infrastructure then I recommend this book as a must-read. As an academic text book it has both depth and breadth. And if you're just interested in the topic you'll gain a huge amount of insight into the fundamentals of computer architecture." --The Chartered Institute for IT

Product details

• Authors: John L. Hennessy, John L. Patterson Hennessy, David A. Patterson
• Publisher: Kaufmann Morgan Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2011
• EAN: 9780123838728
• ISBN: 978-0-12-383872-8
• No. of pages: 856
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 234 mm x 42 mm
• Series: Morgan Kaufmann; The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design; The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing