tailieunhanh - Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition

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 | JOHN L. HENNESSY DAVID A. PATTERSON COMPUTER MOI In Praise of Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach Fifth Edition The 5th edition of Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach continues the legacy providing students of computer architecture with the most up-to-date information on current computing platforms and architectural insights to help them design future systems. A highlight of the new edition is the significantly revised chapter on data-level parallelism which demystifies GPU architectures with clear explanations using traditional computer architecture terminology. Krste Asanovic University of California Berkeley Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach is a classic that like fine wine just keeps getting better. I bought my first copy as I finished up my undergraduate degree and it remains one of my most frequently referenced texts today. When the fourth edition came out there was so much new material that I needed to get it to stay current in the field. And as I review the fifth edition I realize that Hennessy and Patterson have done it again. The entire text is heavily updated and Chapter 6 alone makes this new edition required reading for those wanting to really understand cloud and warehouse scale-computing. Only Hennessy and Patterson have access to the insiders at Google Amazon Microsoft and other cloud computing and internet-scale application providers and there is no better coverage of this important area anywhere in the industry. James Hamilton Amazon Web Services Hennessy and Patterson wrote the first edition of this book when graduate students built computers with 50 000 transistors. Today warehouse-size computers contain that many servers each consisting of dozens of independent processors and billions of transistors. The evolution of computer architecture has been rapid and relentless but Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach has kept pace with each edition accurately explaining and analyzing the important emerging ideas