Computer Architecture : a Quantitative Approach
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. The Fifth Edition of Computer Architecture focuses on this dramatic shift, exploring the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile computing devices. Each chapter includes two real-world examples, one mobile and one datacenter, to illustrate this revolutionary change. Updated to cover the mobile computing revolutionEmphasizes the two most im
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9780123838735, 9780123978646, 0123838738, 0123978645
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Front Cover; In Praise of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative ApproachFifth Edition; Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis; 2 Memory Hierarchy Design; 3 Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation; 4 Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU Architectures; 5 Thread-Level Parallelism; 6 Warehouse-Scale Computers to Exploit Request-Level and Data-Level Parallelism; Appendix A. Instruction Set Principles; Appendix B. Review of Memory Hierarchy. Appendix C. Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate ConceptsReferences; Index; Translation between GPU terms in book and official NVIDIA and OpenCL terms
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