Advanced computer architecture : parallelism, scalability, programmability

The new edition offers a balanced treatment of theory, technology architecture and software used by advanced computer systems. It presents state-of-the-art principles and techniques for designing and programming parallel, vector, and scalable computer systems. The emphasis on parallelism, scalability and programmability lends an added flavor to this text. Two new chapters have been added on Instruction Level Parallelism and Recent Advancements in Computer Architecture. - Two New Chapters on Instruction Level Parallelism & Recent Advancements in Computer Architecture Emphasizes on parallelism, scalability and programmability aspects related to computer architecture Discusses case-studies of real systems- IBM, Hitachi, Cray, Intel, UltraSparc, Blue Gene (from IBM), Cray XT series, XT5 and XMT, Fujitsu, DEC, MasPar, Tera, Stardent, etc. Issues related to instruction level parallelism, processor clock speed, and power consumption defined according to the recent developments in processor design Strong Pedagogical Features: Illustrations: 360 Solved Examples: 114 Exercise Problems: 251 Case Study: 6 Part I Theory of Parallelism 1. Parallel Computer Models 2. Program and Network Properties 3. Principles of Scalable Performance Part II Hardware Technologies 4. Processors and Memory Hierarchy 5. Bus, Cache, and Shared Memory 6. Pipelining and Superscalar Techniques Part III Parallel and Scalable Architectures 7. Multiprocessors and Multicomputers 8. Multivector and SIMD Computers 9. Scalable, Multithreaded, and Dataflow Architectures Part IV Software for Parallel Programming 471 10. Parallel Models, Languages, and Compilers 11. Parallel Program Development and Environments 12. Instruction Level Parallelism 13. Recent Advances in Computer Architecture