Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition 4th Edition

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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 processors in a single package. In the fourth edition of Computer Architecture, the authors focus on this historic shift, increasing their coverage of multiprocessors and exploring the most effective ways of achieving parallelism as the key to unlocking the power of multiple processor architectures. Additionally, the new edition has expanded and updated coverage of design topics beyond processor performance, including power, reliability, availability, and dependability.

Increased coverage on achieving parallelism with multiprocessors.
Case studies of latest technology from industry including the Sun Niagara Multiprocessor, AMD Opteron, and Pentium 4.
Three review appendices, included in the printed volume, review the basic and intermediate principles the main text relies upon.

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“If Neil Armstrong offers to give you a tour of the lunar module, or Tiger Woods asks you to go play golf with him, you should do it. When Hennessy and Patterson offer to lead you on a tour of where computer architecture is going, they call it Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition. You need one. Tours leave on the hour.
― Robert Colwell, Intel lead designer

“The book has been updated so it covers the latest computer architectures like the 64-bit AMD Opteron as well as those from Sun, Intel and other major vendors ... I highly recommend this book for those learning about computer architecture or those wanting to understand architectures that differ from those they are currently using. It does an excellent job of
covering most of the major architectural approaches employed today.
― William Wong, Electronic Design, November 2006

“Computer hardware is entering into a new era, what with multicore processing, virtualization and other enhancements … Computer Architecture covers these topics and updates the insightful work in the earlier editions that laid out the full range of metrics needed for evaluating processor performance.
― Joab Jackson, GCN, November 20, 2006

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The best-selling computer architecture book redefines the field with each new edition

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Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 4 edition (September 27, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0123704901
ISBN-13: 978-0123704900
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1 x 9 inches
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Mike D

Great book, but in need of a new edition

February 14, 2011

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I'm using this book for a graduate course in Computer System Design. It's a great book, well put together, and very interesting. What is needed is a new edition. This book was written during the days of the single core processor speed wars around 2005. Since then there was the core war (2 cores, 4 cores, 6 cores on desktop computer systems), and today the explosion in technical advances with mobile devices. A year ago it was the speed war up to the 1 GHz mark, and today mobile hand-held devices are being released with 1 GHz dual-core processors, and even announcements of quad core mobile devices by the end of the year. It's a much different world than it was in the Pentium 4 days. The information, equations, etc are spot on, as this is the bible for this information. But reading a book that often references 6-7 year old technologies as current or up and coming, at times it feel more like reading a well written history book. It would be interesting to see references and discussions on the computer architectures in modern mobile devices, as these pocket sized computer systems are increasingly becoming a part of everyone's lives today.

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Henry

Good reference, need work on layout

July 30, 2016

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It's a okay read for a first timer like me. I wish it was structured a little better. It jumps around quite a bit. It's not an easy read for a person like me with a mechanical engineering background. But as of now, it's a good reference book. I would recommend it. The diagrams help. But the contents do seem a bit outdated and I'm sure there may be books out there with better layouts.

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M. Zaleski

Excellent deep-dive into processor architecture

March 21, 2009

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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 website that have technical details of a new architecture (e.g. Ars Technica), chances are good you will know the concepts they reference.

Who shouldn't buy this: Programmer's in high level languages expecting to learn some black magic way to speed up your code. Even assembly language programmers have been mostly sidelined by the power of a modern CPU to optimize high-level languages.

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Victor

Wonderful update to a Classic

July 7, 2014

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I've owned every edition of this wonderful book. Thank you Prof. Hennessy and Patterson, as well as all other contributors for writing such an approachable book, not only for students, but also for practitioners. This edition brings the book up to date with the developments in computer architecture and various surrounding technologies, such as memory, disk, etc.
The GPU chapter was fun to read.

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Very Comprehensive Look at Architecture

June 2, 2014

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If it had a more memorable mascot (such as the dragon book), this would likely have a more communicated handle; if you need to know about architecture, this is it. It explains numerous avenues to pursue performance gains, and gives actual calculations to project the implications of design decisions. Far from being stuck on the general inner workings of a PC, this also delves into warehouse-scale computing and explains other ways of constructing computers than the simple models of working but exceedingly out of date designs.

This book is heavy enough to concuss someone with it with a good swing, and there's almost an equal number of pages in accompanying appendices in digital format. That is a lot of material, but it goes a great deal into the minutiae of the low level functions that you probably didn't learn correctly the first time around. Knowledge of basic digital design, organization, a C-based language and familiarity with generic assembly is recommended before tackling this thing.

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Four Stars

November 24, 2017

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Brand new "used" book!
But it seems that it is too much for a single class.

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parky259

Great book

February 21, 2014

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The authors of this text are THE experts on the material, atleast involving MIPS, and it is evident. however, sometimes i get lost in the details and dont really absorb as much as i do from other texts. i had this same issue with the Computer Organization book written by Hennessey.

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A legend for my personal collection!

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