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ARCHITECTURAL COMPUTING QUANTITATIVE APPROACH

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH (SIXTH AMERICAN EDITION)
PATTERSON A. DAVID
The book "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", sixth American edition, has been considered essential by instructors, students, and computer design professionals for nearly 30 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook has been thoroughly revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture. It now includes examples from the RISC V instruction set architecture, a modern instruction set developed and designed to be a free and open standard. It also includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures and an updated chapter on warehouse-scale computing, which presents the first publicly available information on Google's latest warehouse-scale computer. True to the book's original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the long tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting innovations in computing are happening, while always maintaining an emphasis on good technical design. Interesting content - Includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures, explaining how it is the only way to improve performance and energy efficiency given the end of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling. - Presents four domain-specific architectures from the industry: Google's Tensor Processing Unit, Google's Pixel Visual Core, Intel's Nervana Neural Network Processor, and Microsoft's Catapult accelerator. - Contains extensive updates to the chapter on warehouse-scale computing, including the first publicly available information on Google's latest warehouse-scale computer - Offers updates to other chapters, including new material regarding the use of stacked DRAM; data on the performance of NVIDIA's new Pascal GPU compared to Intel's new Skylake CPU with AVX-512 extensions; and extensive additions to the content covering the architecture and organization of multicore processors. "This sixth edition comes at a critical time: Moore's Law is fading just as deep learning systems require unprecedented computational cycles. The new chapter on domain-specific architectures documents a number of promising approaches and predicts a renaissance in computer architecture. Like the scholars of the European Renaissance, computer architects must understand their own history, and then combine the lessons of that history with new techniques to remake the world.