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1 online resource (350 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; The Author; Table of Contents; Introduction; I.1 Computing Paradigms; I.2 The Need for Advanced Architectures; I.2.1 Hardware; I.2.2 Software; I.2.3 Systems; I.3 Book Overview; References; 1: Uniprocessor Architecture Overview; 1.1 Uniprocessor Model; 1.2 Enhancements to the Uniprocessor Model; 1.2.1 Arithmetic Logic Unit; 1.2.2 Memory; 1.2.3 Control Unit; 1.2.4 I/O Subsystem; 1.2.5 Interconnection Structures; 1.2.6 System Considerations; 1.3 Example Systems; 1.3.1 Intel Corporation's Itanium |
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1.3.2 MIPS Computer System's R100001.4 Summary; Problems; References; 2: Models and Terminology; 2.1 Effect of Application on the Architecture; 2.2 Application Characteristics; 2.3 Processing Paradigms; 2.4 Flynn's Taxonomy; 2.4.1 Single Instruction Stream, Multiple Data Stream; 2.4.2 Multiple Instruction Stream, Multiple Data Stream; 2.5 Computer Networks; 2.6 Performance Evaluation; 2.6.1 Benchmarks; 2.7 Cost Factor; 2.8 Summary; Problems; References; 3: Pipelining; 3.1 Pipeline Model; 3.1.1 Pipeline Types; 3.2 Pipeline Control and Performance; 3.2.1 Collision Vectors; 3.2.2 Control |
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3.2.3 Performance3.2.4 Multifunction Pipelines; 3.3 Other Pipeline Problems; 3.3.1 Data Interlocks; 3.3.2 Conditional Branches; 3.3.3 Multiple Instruction Buffers; 3.3.4 Interrupts; 3.4 Dynamic Pipelines; 3.4.1 Instruction Deferral; 3.4.2 Performance Evaluation; 3.5 Example Systems; 3.5.1 Control Data Corporation STAR-100; 3.5.2 Control Data Corporation 6600; 3.5.3 Sun Microsystem's Niagara Microprocessor; 3.6 Summary; Problems; References; 4: Vector Processors; 4.1 Vector Processor Models; 4.2 Memory Design Considerations; 4.3 Architecture of the Cray Series; 4.3.1 Memory |
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4.3.2 Processor Interconnection4.3.3 Central Processor; 4.3.4 I/O System; 4.3.5 Other Systems in the Series; 4.4 Performance Evaluation; 4.5 Programming Vector Processors; 4.6 Example Systems; 4.6.1 Hitachi Super Technical Server; 4.6.2 NEC SX Series; 4.6.3 Cray X1; 4.7 Summary; Problems; References; 5: Array Processors; 5.1 SIMD Organization; 5.1.1 Memory; 5.1.2 Control Processor; 5.1.3 Arithmetic/Logic Processors; 5.1.4 Interconnection Network; 5.1.5 Registers, Instruction Set, Performance Considerations; 5.2 Data Storage Techniques and Memory Organization; 5.3 Interconnection Networks |
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5.3.1 Terminology and Performance Measures5.3.2 Routing Protocols; 5.3.3 Static Topologies; 5.3.4 Dynamic Topologies; 5.4 Performance Evaluation and Scalability; 5.5 Programming SIMDs; 5.6 Example Systems; 5.6.1 ILLIAC-IV; 5.6.2 Thinking Machine Corporation's CM-2; 5.7 Summary; Problems; References; 6: Multiprocessor Systems; 6.1 MIMD Organization; 6.1.1 Shared-Memory Architecture; 6.1.2 Message-Passing Architecture; 6.1.3 Other Models; 6.2 Memory Organization; 6.2.1 Cache Coherence; 6.3 Interconnection Networks; 6.3.1 Bus Network; 6.3.2 Loop or Ring; 6.3.3 Mesh Network |
| Summary |
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 |
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6.3.4 Hypercube Network |
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Computer architecture.
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High performance computing.
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Parallel computers.
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Parallelverarbeitung
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Datorarkitektur
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COMPUTERS -- Systems Architecture -- General.
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Computer architecture.
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High performance computing.
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Parallel computers.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351992091 |
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1351992090 |
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