Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability

✍ Scribed by Kai Hwang, Naresh Jotwani

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 749
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The new edition offers a balanced treatment of theory, technology architecture and software used by advanced computer systems. It presents state-of-the-art principles and techniques for designing and programming parallel, vector, and scalable computer systems. The emphasis on parallelism, scalability and programmability lends an added flavor to this text. Two new chapters have been added on Instruction Level Parallelism and Recent Advancements in Computer Architecture.

• Two New Chapters on Instruction Level Parallelism & Recent Advancements in Computer Architecture
  Emphasizes on parallelism, scalability and programmability aspects related to computer architecture
  Discusses case-studies of real systems- IBM, Hitachi, Cray, Intel, UltraSparc, Blue Gene (from IBM), Cray XT series, XT5 and XMT, Fujitsu, DEC, MasPar, Tera, Stardent, etc.
  Issues related to instruction level parallelism, processor clock speed, and power consumption defined according to the recent developments in processor design
  Strong Pedagogical Features:
  Illustrations: 360
  Solved Examples: 114
  Exercise Problems: 251
  Case Study: 6

✦ Table of Contents

Part I Theory of Parallelism
1. Parallel Computer Models
2. Program and Network Properties
3. Principles of Scalable Performance

Part II Hardware Technologies
4. Processors and Memory Hierarchy
5. Bus, Cache, and Shared Memory
6. Pipelining and Superscalar Techniques

Part III Parallel and Scalable Architectures
7. Multiprocessors and Multicomputers
8. Multivector and SIMD Computers
9. Scalable, Multithreaded, and Dataflow Architectures

Part IV Software for Parallel Programming 471
10. Parallel Models, Languages, and Compilers
11. Parallel Program Development and Environments
12. Instruction Level Parallelism
13. Recent Advances in Computer Architecture