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Advanced computer architectures. (English) Zbl 1119.68015

Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis (ISBN 0-8493-3758-5/hbk). xiv, 335 p. (2006).
Publisher’s description: 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. This book focuses on the design of high performance supercomputers with balanced coverage of the hardware, software structures, and application characteristics.
The 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, this book endows you with the tools necessary to reach the limits of existing technology, and ultimately, to break them.

MSC:

68M07 Mathematical problems of computer architecture
68-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science
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