Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - Softcover

Hennessy, John L.; Patterson, David A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558601880 ISBN 13: 9781558601888

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In, 1991

Synopsis

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach focuses on computer architecture as a modern science. The second edition explores the next generation of architectures and design techniques with view to the future. A basis for modern computer architecture.

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About the Author

John L. Hennessy is the president of Stanford University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1977 in the departments of electrical engineering and computer science. Hennessy is a fellow of the IEEE and the ACM, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. He received the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award for his contributions to RISC technology, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and shared the John von Neumann award in 2000 with David Patterson.

After completing the project in 1984, he took a one-year leave from the university to co-found MIPS Computer Systems, which developed one of the first commercial RISC microprocessors. After being acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1991, MIPS Technologies became an independent company in 1998, focusing on microprocessors for the embedded marketplace. As of 2004, over 300 million MIPS microprocessors have been shipped in devices ranging from video games and palmtop computers to laser printers and network switches.

Hennessy's more recent research at Stanford focuses on the area of designing and exploiting multiprocessors. He helped lead the design of the DASH multiprocessor architecture, the first distributed shared-memory multiprocessors supporting cache coherency, and the basis for several commercial multiprocessor designs, including the Silicon Graphics Origin multiprocessors. Since becoming president of Stanford, revising and updating this text and the more advanced Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach has become a primary form of recreation and relaxation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558601880
• ISBN 13: 9781558601888
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 750