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"What has made this book an enduring classic is that each edition is not an update, but an extensive revision that presents the most current information and unparalleled insight into this fascinating and fast changing field. For me, after over twenty years in this profession, it is also another opportunity to experience that student-grade admiration for two remarkable teachers." - From the Foreword by Luiz Andre Barroso, Google, Inc. "This is an academic textbook that is also suitable for a far broader readership. Each chapter is organised in the same structure, with the main content supported by case studies and exercises. Having read this book I now have a far better understanding of why processors from all the different designers and manufacturers are so different. Memory hierarchies, multicore architectures and compiler optimisation are all covered in great detail. I was particularly interested in their discussion of graphical processing units and how they are suitable for far more than just graphical workloads. What is great about this book is that it moves with the times. There is a lot of content on processors for mobile computing, and power usage is a pervasive theme. At the other extreme there is an excellent chapter on warehouse scale computers, which offers tremendous insight into the cloud computing infrastructure provided by Google, Amazon and others. If your job has anything to do with IT infrastructure then I recommend this book as a must-read. As an academic text book it has both depth and breadth. And if you're just interested in the topic you'll gain a huge amount of insight into the fundamentals of computer architecture."--The Chartered Institute for IT
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The computing world today is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation today. The Fifth Edition of "Computer Architecture" focuses on this dramatic shift, exploring the ways in which software and technology in the 'cloud' are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile computing devices. Each chapter includes two real-world examples, one mobile and one datacenter, to illustrate this revolutionary change. It is updated to cover the mobile computing revolution. It emphasizes the two most important topics in architecture today: memory hierarchy and parallelism in all its forms. It develops common themes throughout each chapter: power, performance, cost, dependability, protection, programming models, and emerging trends ('What's Next'). It includes three review appendices in the printed text. Additional reference appendices are available online. It includes updated Case Studies and completely new exercises.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
An excellent improvement on a Computer Science classic
3 Oct 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was sitting in Austin airport last week with a friend who casually mentioned that he was quoted in the latest edition of Computer Architecture. It seemed like only yesterday I was reading the 4th edition, but I was pleasantly surprised by the new release and had a copy rushed over next day. I was not disappointed. Having spent most of the weekend reading the latest edition, I've been extremely impressed thus far. This edition lives up to its heritage, and goes beyond, embracing the industry trends toward "Cloud Computing" (Warehouse Scale Computers - chapter 6 includes an awesome analysis of the Google cluster/array designs and their efficiencies), Task Level Parallelism, and so on. It also goes beyond the 4th edition cleanup, featuring substantially new material in a much more complete overall volume. A sheer joy to read.
24 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Disappointed
20 Oct 2011
Format:Paperback
It appears that this book was rushed out by the publisher, *unfinished*.
Core subjects that would normally be chapters in other books, such as "Computer Arithmetic", "Storage Systems", "Large-scale multiprocessors", "Survey of Instructions Set", etc (nine chapters in total ), have been relegated to an "Online Appendices" status, which is a misnomer because as of 2011/10/20 they don't exist at all, even online (a terse "coming soon" appearing on the website).
My suggestions: don't buy the book now, wait until the missing chapters are published and appears in print in the book itself.
If you buy the book now, you will only be able to read a lot of chapters as ".pdf" when they get published, not a pleasant experience in my opinion, and you will also contribute to encourage publishers in this bad practice.
To give you an idea of how bad it is, the number of non-printed chapters (9) is the same as the number of printed chapters (6 + 3 "appendices") and if we can trust the authors themselves: "There are more pages in these appendices (the non-printed ones) than there is in this book" (preface p xvi) !
[Update: 2011/11/01: the appendices are now present on the books web site in pdf. But still no printed paper version of the appendices available or announced]
Core subjects that would normally be chapters in other books, such as "Computer Arithmetic", "Storage Systems", "Large-scale multiprocessors", "Survey of Instructions Set", etc (nine chapters in total ), have been relegated to an "Online Appendices" status, which is a misnomer because as of 2011/10/20 they don't exist at all, even online (a terse "coming soon" appearing on the website).
My suggestions: don't buy the book now, wait until the missing chapters are published and appears in print in the book itself.
If you buy the book now, you will only be able to read a lot of chapters as ".pdf" when they get published, not a pleasant experience in my opinion, and you will also contribute to encourage publishers in this bad practice.
To give you an idea of how bad it is, the number of non-printed chapters (9) is the same as the number of printed chapters (6 + 3 "appendices") and if we can trust the authors themselves: "There are more pages in these appendices (the non-printed ones) than there is in this book" (preface p xvi) !
[Update: 2011/11/01: the appendices are now present on the books web site in pdf. But still no printed paper version of the appendices available or announced]
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
An incredible compendium of hardware information.
13 Jan 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Vine™ Review
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Computer architecture offers an in depth view of computer hardware. I have taken a lot of classes on computer hardware and done a lot of reading. This book is far and away the best resource for understanding how hardware works and the mathematical calculations that go into it. I haven't read any of the previous editions.
Authors John L. Hennessy and David Patterson start the reader out with the fundamentals of computer hardware design and take the reader through memory design, parallelisms including instruction level, data level and thread level. The authors give the reader a graphical lay out of parallelism for those that don't fully understand it.
Memory is discussed a lot in this book. The authors talk a lot about memory optimization, design and cache. Hennessy and Patterson walk the reader through complex mathematical equations. The chapter dedicated to memory was my favorite because it was so inclusive of everything that goes into memory allocation and maximizing memory.
The authors also spent a lot of time on processors, multi-threading and understanding that architecture, the process of multi-threading and what true multi-threading is, how multi-threading works and machine instruction sets.
In all of the subjects the authors discuss "Fallacies and pitfalls". This section the Authors use discuss misconceptions and misbeliefs about the topic being discussed in the related chapter which I found interesting and very useful.
After the subject matter that's covered in the chapters there are three appendices in the book and several additional available online which is fine with me. It's a huge book and probably the most cost effective way to produce a paperback version was to put some of the appendices online considering the limited audience this book will have.
While the subject matter is complex the Authors had a writing style and format that made everything fairly easy to understand. This book is not for the beginner. The reader will have to have a god understanding of how hardware works and you will have to love to do math as I do. After reading Computer architecture a quantitative approach i have a much better understanding how computer hardware works at it core.
Very well written and researched, 5 stars
Authors John L. Hennessy and David Patterson start the reader out with the fundamentals of computer hardware design and take the reader through memory design, parallelisms including instruction level, data level and thread level. The authors give the reader a graphical lay out of parallelism for those that don't fully understand it.
Memory is discussed a lot in this book. The authors talk a lot about memory optimization, design and cache. Hennessy and Patterson walk the reader through complex mathematical equations. The chapter dedicated to memory was my favorite because it was so inclusive of everything that goes into memory allocation and maximizing memory.
The authors also spent a lot of time on processors, multi-threading and understanding that architecture, the process of multi-threading and what true multi-threading is, how multi-threading works and machine instruction sets.
In all of the subjects the authors discuss "Fallacies and pitfalls". This section the Authors use discuss misconceptions and misbeliefs about the topic being discussed in the related chapter which I found interesting and very useful.
After the subject matter that's covered in the chapters there are three appendices in the book and several additional available online which is fine with me. It's a huge book and probably the most cost effective way to produce a paperback version was to put some of the appendices online considering the limited audience this book will have.
While the subject matter is complex the Authors had a writing style and format that made everything fairly easy to understand. This book is not for the beginner. The reader will have to have a god understanding of how hardware works and you will have to love to do math as I do. After reading Computer architecture a quantitative approach i have a much better understanding how computer hardware works at it core.
Very well written and researched, 5 stars
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