Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach 5th Edition

Description

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 revolution
* Emphasizes the two most important topics in architecture today: memory hierarchy and parallelism in all its forms.
* Develops common themes throughout each chapter: power, performance, cost, dependability, protection, programming models, and emerging trends ("What's Next")
* Includes three review appendices in the printed text. Additional reference appendices are available online.
* Includes updated Case Studies and completely new exercises.

CONTENTS:

Printed Text Chap 1: Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis Chap 2: Memory Hierarchy Design Chap 3: Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation Chap 4: Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU Architectures Chap 5: Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism Chap 6: The Warehouse-Scale Computer App A: Instruction Set Principles App B: Review of Memory Hierarchy App C: Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts

Online App D: Storage Systems App E: Embedded Systems App F: Interconnection Networks App G: Vector Processors App H: Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPIC App I: Large-Scale Multiprocessors and Scientific Applications App J: Computer Arithmetic App K: Survey of Instruction Set Architectures App L: Historical Perspectives