Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

Computer architecture deals with the physical configuration, logical structure, formats, protocols, and operational sequences for processing data, controlling the configuration, and controlling the operations over a computer. It also encompasses word lengths, instruction codes, and the interrelationships among the main parts of a computer or group of computers. This two-volume set offers a comprehensive coverage of the field of computer organization and architecture. This is the first book in the two-volume set offering comprehensive coverage of the field of computer organization and architecture. This book provides complete coverage of the subjects pertaining to introductory courses in computer organization and architecture, including: Instruction set architecture and design Assembly language programming Computer arithmetic Processing unit design Memory system design Input-output design and organization Pipelining design techniques Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISCs) The authors, who share over 15 years of undergraduate and graduate level instruction in computer architecture, provide real world applications, examples of machines, case studies and practical experiences in each chapter.

This graduate textbook presents advanced computer architectures that utilize parallelism via multiple processing units. El-Rewini (computer science, Southern Methodist University) and Abd-el-Barr (information science, Kuwait University) describe a variety of shared memory and message passing architectures, abstract models for evaluating parallel algorithms, the parallel virtual machine (PVM) programming system, and the message passing interface (MPI) standard for writing portable programs. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR