Computer Architecture

Computer Architecture

A Quantitative Approach

6th Edition - November 23, 2017

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  • Authors: John Hennessy, David Patterson
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128119068
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128119051

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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook from Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field, is fully revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture. The text now features examples from the RISC-V (RISC Five) instruction set architecture, a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to be a free and openly adoptable standard. It also includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures and an updated chapter on warehouse-scale computing that features the first public information on Google's newest WSC. True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the longstanding tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computing innovation is happening, while always keeping an emphasis on good engineering design.

Key Features

  • Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association
  • Includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures, explaining how they are the only path forward for improved performance and energy efficiency given the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling
  • Features the first publication of several DSAs from industry
  • Features extensive updates to the chapter on warehouse-scale computing, with the first public information on the newest Google WSC
  • Offers updates to other chapters including new material dealing with the use of stacked DRAM; data on the performance of new NVIDIA Pascal GPU vs. new AVX-512 Intel Skylake CPU; and extensive additions to content covering multicore architecture and organization
  • Includes "Putting It All Together" sections near the end of every chapter, providing real-world technology examples that demonstrate the principles covered in each chapter
  • Includes review appendices in the printed text and additional reference appendices available online
  • Includes updated and improved case studies and exercises
  • ACM named John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, recipients of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry

Readership

Graduate students and professional computer architects, computer system designers, compiler and system software developers, programmers, application developers

Table of Contents

  • Printed Text
    1. Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis
    2. Memory Hierarchy Design
    3. Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation
    4. Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU Architectures
    5. Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism
    6. The Warehouse-Scale Computer
    7. Domain Specific Architectures
    A. Instruction Set Principles
    B. Review of Memory Hierarchy
    C. Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts

    Online
    D. Storage Systems
    E. Embedded Systems
    F. Interconnection Networks
    G. Vector Processors
    H. Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPIC
    I. Large-Scale Multiprocessors and Scientific Applications
    J. Computer Arithmetic
    K. Survey of Instruction Set Architectures
    L. Advanced Concepts on Address Translation
    M. Historical Perspectives and References

Product details

  • No. of pages: 936
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Morgan Kaufmann 2017
  • Published: November 23, 2017
  • Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128119068
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128119051

About the Authors

John Hennessy

John Hennessy
ACM named John L. Hennessy a recipient of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. John L. Hennessy is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1977 and was, from 2000 to 2016, its tenth President. Prof. Hennessy is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM; a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, and the American Philosophical Society; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his many awards are the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award for his contributions to RISC technology, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and the 2000 John von Neumann Award, which he shared with David Patterson. He has also received seven honorary doctorates.

Affiliations and Expertise

Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University, USA

David Patterson

David Patterson is the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, which he joined after graduating from UCLA in 1977.His teaching has been honored by the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, the Karlstrom Award from ACM, and the Mulligan Education Medal and Undergraduate Teaching Award from IEEE. Prof. Patterson received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award and the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to RISC, and he shared the IEEE Johnson Information Storage Award for contributions to RAID. He also shared the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the C & C Prize with John Hennessy. Like his co-author, Prof. Patterson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Computer History Museum, ACM, and IEEE, and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. He served on the Information Technology Advisory Committee to the U.S. President, as chair of the CS division in the Berkeley EECS department, as chair of the Computing Research Association, and as President of ACM. This record led to Distinguished Service Awards from ACM, CRA, and SIGARCH.

Affiliations and Expertise

Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, USA

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  • AndrewMcMenamin Sun Oct 14 2018

    Realistic overview, sloppy updating

    This book makes computer architecture relatable to real applications and seeks to give meaningful insights to evaluating architectures. However, as of the 6th edition of this book, it is obvious that the authors/editors have put minimal effort into updating the examples of the book. There are many errors in the technical aspects of the examples (bit counts, references to nonexistent content, etc. ) that distract readers from the meat of the content. This makes the reader ever skeptical of the authors points and makes the content 5x as long to read, as you must always seek the truth for yourself. This may have been ‘the book’ in the past but is no longer the case.

  • GhulamAbbas Fri Oct 12 2018

    Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

    Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach