_Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition_ has
been considered essential reading by instructors, students and
practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition
of this classic textbook from Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the
2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing contributions of lasting and
major technical importance to the computing field, is fully revised
with the latest developments in processor and system architecture. The
text now features examples from the RISC-V (RISC Five) instruction set
architecture, a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to
be a free and openly adoptable standard. It also includes a new
chapter on domain-specific architectures and an updated chapter on
warehouse-scale computing that features the first public information
on Google's newest WSC.
True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture,
this edition continues the longstanding tradition of focusing on areas
where the most exciting computing innovation is happening, while
always keeping an emphasis on good engineering design.
* Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the
Textbook and Academic Authors Association
* Includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures,
explaining how they are the only path forward for improved performance
and energy efficiency given the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard
scaling
* Features the first publication of several DSAs from industry
* Features extensive updates to the chapter on warehouse-scale
computing, with the first public information on the newest Google WSC
* Offers updates to other chapters including new material dealing
with the use of stacked DRAM; data on the performance of new NVIDIA
Pascal GPU vs. new AVX-512 Intel Skylake CPU; and extensive additions
to content covering multicore architecture and organization
* Includes "Putting It All Together" sections near the end of every
chapter, providing real-world technology examples that demonstrate the
principles covered in each chapter
* Includes review appendices in the printed text and additional
reference appendices available online
* Includes updated and improved case studies and exercises
* ACM named John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, recipients of
the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic,
quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer
architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry
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ISBN
9780128119068
Publisert
2018
Utgave
6. utgave
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Vendor
Morgan Kaufmann
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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