TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hennessy,John L.
AU  - Patterson,David A.
TI  - Computer architecture : : a quantitative approach 
SN  - 9780123838735 (ebook)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Amsterdam, London
PB  - Morgan Kaufmann
KW  - Computer architecture
KW  - Computers and IT
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Computing & information technology
KW  - thema
KW  - Computer architecture & logic design
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Previous ed.: 2007; Text on inside covers; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780123838728; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - The computing world is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation. This book focuses on the shift, exploring the ways in which software and technology in the 'cloud' are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and more; Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Fifth Edition, explores the ways that software and technology in the cloud are accessed by digital media, such as cell phones, computers, tablets, and other mobile devices. The book, which became a part of Intel's 2012 recommended reading list for developers, covers the revolution of mobile computing. It also highlights the two most important factors in architecture today: parallelism and memory hierarchy. This fully updated edition is comprised of six chapters that follow a consistent framework: explanation of the ideas in each chapter; a crosscutting issues section, which presents how the concepts covered in one chapter connect with those given in other chapters; a putting it all together section that links these concepts by discussing how they are applied in real machine; and detailed examples of misunderstandings and architectural traps commonly encountered by developers and architects. Formulas for energy, static and dynamic power, integrated circuit costs, reliability, and availability are included. The book also covers virtual machines, SRAM and DRAM technologies, and new material on Flash memory. Other topics include the exploitation of instruction-level parallelism in high-performance processors, superscalar execution, dynamic scheduling and multithreading, vector architectures, multicore processors, and warehouse-scale computers (WSCs). There are updated case studies and completely new exercises. Additional reference appendices are available online. This book will be a valuable reference for computer architects, programmers, application developers, compiler and system software developers, computer system designers and application developers
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