Computer architecture a quantitative approach

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...

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Main Author Hennessy, John L.
Other Authors Patterson, David A., Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ©2007.
Edition4th ed.
Subjects
Computer architecture.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080475028
9780123704900
Physical Description1 online zdroj (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Fundamentals of computer design
  • Instruction-level parallelism and its exploitation
  • Limits on instruction-level parallelism
  • Multiprocessors and thread-level parallelism
  • Memory hierarchy design
  • Storage systems
  • Pipelining: basic and intermediate concepts
  • Instruction set principles and examples
  • Review of memory hierarchy.

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