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
Author(s): Kai Hwang, Naresh Jotwani
Edition: 2
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Education
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 749
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
