TY - BOOK AU - Hennessy,John L. AU - Patterson,David A. AU - Asanović,Krste TI - Computer architecture: a quantitative approach T2 - The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design SN - 9780123838728 (pbk.) U1 - 004.2/2 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Waltham, MA PB - Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier KW - Computer architecture N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. r-1-32) and index; 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 ER -