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Computer Architecture, Fourth Edition

A Quantitative Approach

By John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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| Paperback | 9780123704900

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The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor modelContinue

The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors--chips that combine two or more processors in a single package. In the fourth edition of Computer Architecture, the authors focus on this historic shift, increasing their coverage of multiprocessors and exploring the most effective ways of achieving parallelism as the key to unlocking the power of multiple processor architectures. Additionally, the new edition has expanded and updated coverage of design topics beyond processor performance, including power, reliability, availability, and dependability.

Increased coverage on achieving parallelism with multiprocessors.

Case studies of latest technology from industry including the Sun Niagara Multiprocessor, AMD Opteron, and Pentium 4.

Three review appendices, included in the printed volume, review the basic and intermediate principles the main text relies upon.

Eight reference appendices, collected on the CD, cover a range of topics including specific architectures, embedded systems, application specific processors--some guest authored by subject experts.

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    If anyone is qualified to talk about computer architecture, it's Patterson and Hennessy.

    The book contains chapters on basic computer design, instruction set principles, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, networks, multiprocessors, vector processing, and a whole host of other technolo ... (continue)

    If anyone is qualified to talk about computer architecture, it's Patterson and Hennessy.

    The book contains chapters on basic computer design, instruction set principles, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, networks, multiprocessors, vector processing, and a whole host of other technologies that show up in mainstream CPUs.

    Each chapter goes in-depth on the topic and shows you the kinds of decisions and tradeoffs that go into the design and implementation of a particular technology.

    At the end of each chapter is a section called “Fallacies and Pitfalls,” which shows the reader what to look out for when designing and implementing the technology just discussed.

    The chapters also have a “Historical Perspectives” section that gives the history of the development of the technology under consideration.

    Finally, an appendix contains a survey of various RISC architectures: MIPS, SPARC, PowerPC, and PA-RISC; there's also an entire appendix devoted to the 80x86.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 704 Pages
  • Edition: 4
  • ISBN-10: 0123704901
  • ISBN-13: 9780123704900
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
  • Pub date: Sep 13, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1226 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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