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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors--chips that combine two or more pro...more
Paperback, Fourth Edition, 672 pages
Published
September 13th 2006
by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
(first published 1991)
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Sep 13, 2011
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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 go to the we...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 go to the we...more
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...more
The school I teach at, SUNY Old Westbury, assigned me this book for undergraduate Computer Architecture by mistake. This book is intended for graduate students.
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Textbook used for computer architecture course
more adventures in computer architecture
Mine also mentions David A. Patterson as author.
Challenging, but worth it.
It is a good Book
Apr 16, 2013
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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.
Patterson teaches a graduate course at Berkeley based on this book, and the lectures are available online
very interesting book. introductory materials but very helpful
Best textbook ever.
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