This landmark revision of the first book to focus on computer architecture as a modern science covers a new generation of architectures and design techniques with a view to the future. It includes increased coverage of pipelining and storage, a comprehensive presentation of caches, and a new chapter on shared memory multiprocessing and network technology. Anyone involved in building computers will profit from the unmatched experience and quantitative approach that Hennessy and Patterson apply to their presentation.
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Solutions Manual Available
A solutions manual is available that gives answers to many of the exercises in Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. It's called Solutions to Selected Exercises in Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition--if you paste the first few words of the title into the Amazon search engine, you will find the entry.
Other resources for book
Readers interested in the subject should first be familiar with the material in "Computer Organization and Design," by the same authors and same publisher.
To get more details on this book look at the publisher's home page:
http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/1-55860-329-8.asp
Also, for on-line lecture notes in postscript or pdf see
http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~patterson/252F96/index.html
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