The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitation...
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Sep 13, 2011
Joecolelife
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This book isn't for the timid. It goes deep into several recent CPU designs and explains why the architectures turned out the way they did. There is decent coverage of RISC versus CISC ideas, and why CISC now dominates (hint: it is a combination of luck, marketing, and massive amounts of available transistors, plus new ways of instruction-level parallelism).
It does not cover the absolute latest processors. But it doesn't have to. It will give you the background needed that when you More...
It does not cover the absolute latest processors. But it doesn't have to. It will give you the background needed that when you More...
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Sep 18, 2008
Nick
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My gargantuan Second Edition of Mssrs. Patterson et Hennessy, reeking with the stench of death forever associated with CS2200 (the foulest corruption of awesome material via wretched undergraduate TA fuckups 'ere I've experienced), sits off in the corner of my room, 1100+ pages of processing, parallelizing, and pipelining. When I found problems assigned to our CS6290 (High-Performance Computer Architecture) class last week out of the Fourth Edition, and that -- of course -- the exercises had bee
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May 25, 2010
Nick
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The fourth edition is a mighty step up, although this is a classic and well worth having for its expanded historical coverage, pleasantly interwoven in the text as opposed to cold exile on the cdrom.
Aug 04, 2008
Dimitri
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Patterson teaches a graduate course at Berkeley based on this book, and the lectures are available online
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