Advanced Computer Architectures - Hardcover

Shiva, Sajjan G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849337585 ISBN 13: 9780849337581

Publisher: CRC Press, 2005

Synopsis

Despite the tremendous advances in performance enabled by modern architectures, there are always new applications and demands arising that require ever-increasing capabilities. Keeping up with these demands requires a deep-seated understanding of contemporary architectures in concert with a fundamental understanding of basic principles that allows one to anticipate what will be possible over the system's lifetime. Advanced Computer Architectures focuses on the design of high performance supercomputers with balanced coverage of the hardware, software structures, and application characteristics. This book is a timeless distillation of underlying principles punctuated by real-world implementations in popular current and past commercially available systems. It briefly reviews the basics of uniprocessor architecture before outlining the most popular processing paradigms, performance evaluation, and cost factor considerations. This builds to a discussion of pipeline design and vector processors, data parallel architectures, and multiprocessor systems. Rounding out the book, the final chapter explores some important current and emerging trends such as Dataflow, Grid, biology-inspired, and optical computing. More than 220 figures, tables, and equations illustrate the concepts presented. Based on the author's more than thirty years of teaching and research, Advanced Computer Architectures endows you with the tools necessary to reach the limits of existing technology, and ultimately, to break them.

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Sajjan G. Shiva

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0849337585
• ISBN 13: 9780849337581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350