Advanced Computer Architectures

Sajjan G. Shiva

ISBN 10: 0849337585 / ISBN 13: 9780849337581

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep 2005, 2005

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Neuware - This book is a timeless distillation of the underlying principles of computer architecture 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. Each chapter includes problems and references.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Advanced Computer Architectures
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0849337585
• ISBN 13: 9780849337581
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 23D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 690 grams

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Synopsis

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. Advanced Computer Architectures focuses on the design of high performance supercomputers with balanced coverage of the hardware, software structures, and application characteristics. This 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, Advanced Computer Architectures endows you with the tools necessary to reach the limits of existing technology, and ultimately, to break them.

About the Author

Sajjan G. Shiva