Hennessy, John L. <br/><br/>
Computer architecture :  a quantitative approach / 
John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson ; with contributions by Krste Asanović ́... [et al.]. 
 - Fifth edition 
 - xxvii, 493, [325] p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design. .
 - The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. r-1-32) and index. 
<br/><br/><br/>Fundamentals of quantitative design and analysis -- Memory hierarchy design -- Instruction-level parallelism and its exploitation -- Data-level parallelism in vector, SIMD, and GPU architectures -- Thread-level parallelism -- Warehouse-scale computers to exploit request-level and data-level parallelism -- Instruction set principles -- Review of memory hierarchy -- Pipelining: basic and intermediate concepts -- Online appendices. Storage systems -- Embedded systems -- Interconnection networks -- Vector processors in more depth -- Hardware and software for VLIW and EPIC -- Large-scale multiprocessors and scientific applications -- Computer arithmetic -- Survey of instruction set architectures -- Historical perspectives and references. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780123838728 (pbk.) 012383872X (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Computer architecture.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>004.2/2    / H515