Beschreibung:
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach 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 became a part of Intel's 2012 recommended reading list for developers, and it covers the revolution of mobile computing. The text also highlights the two most important factors in architecture today: parallelism and memory hierarchy. The six chapters that this book is composed of 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. The first chapter of the book includes formulas for energy, static and dynamic power, integrated circuit costs, reliability, and availability. Chapter 2 discusses memory hierarchy and includes discussions about virtual machines, SRAM and DRAM technologies, and new material on Flash memory. The third chapter covers the exploitation of instruction-level parallelism in high-performance processors, superscalar execution, dynamic scheduling and multithreading, followed by an introduction to vector architectures in the fourth chapter. Chapters 5 and 6 describe multicore processors and warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), respectively. This book is an important reference for computer architects, programmers, application developers, compiler and system software developers, computer system designers and application developers. Part of Intel's 2012 Recommended Reading List for Developers Updated to cover the mobile computing revolution
Front Cover -- In Praise of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative ApproachFifth Edition -- Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Why We Wrote This Book -- This Edition -- Topic Selection and Organization -- An Overview of the Content -- Navigating the Text -- Chapter Structure -- Case Studies with Exercises -- Supplemental Materials -- Helping Improve This Book -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors to the Fifth Edition -- Reviewers -- Advisory Panel -- Appendices -- Case Studies with Exercises -- Additional Material -- Contributors to Previous Editions -- Reviewers -- Appendices -- Exercises -- Case Studies with Exercises -- Special Thanks -- 1 Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Classes of Computers -- Personal Mobile Device (PMD) -- Desktop Computing -- Servers -- Clusters/Warehouse-Scale Computers -- Embedded Computers -- Classes of Parallelism and Parallel Architectures -- 1.3 Defining Computer Architecture -- Instruction Set Architecture: The Myopic View of Computer Architecture -- Genuine Computer Architecture: Designing the Organization and Hardware to Meet Goals and Functional Requirements -- 1.4 Trends in Technology -- Performance Trends: Bandwidth over Latency -- Scaling of Transistor Performance and Wires -- 1.5 Trends in Power and Energy in Integrated Circuits -- Power and Energy: A Systems Perspective -- Energy and Power within a Microprocessor -- 1.6 Trends in Cost -- The Impact of Time, Volume, and Commoditization -- Cost of an Integrated Circuit -- Cost versus Price -- Cost of Manufacturing versus Cost of Operation -- 1.7 Dependability -- 1.8 Measuring, Reporting, and Summarizing Performance -- Benchmarks -- Desktop Benchmarks -- Server Benchmarks -- Reporting Performance Results.