Book, Computer Architecture a Quantitative Approach 6/19[LS]

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach has been considered essential reading by instructors, students, and computer design practitioners for nearly 30 years. This 6th edition of this classic is completely revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture. And now presents architectural examples of the RISC-V (RISC Five) instruction set, a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to be a free and openly adoptable standard. Also includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures and an updated chapter on warehouse-scale computing that presents the first public information about Google's newest WSC. True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the long tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computational innovation is happening, while always maintaining the emphasis on good engineering design. What's New in the Edition: A new chapter that explains how domain-specific architectures are the only path toward improving performance and power efficiency, considering the end of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling; An introduction to the industry's four DSAs: Google Tensor Processing Unit, Google Pixel Visual Core, Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor, and Microsoft Catapult; Lots of updates in the chapter on warehouse-scale computing, with the first information about Google's latest WSC; Updates to other chapters, including new material on handling stacked DRAM; data on the performance of the new NVIDIA Pascal GPU versus Intel's new Skylake AVX-512 CPU; and many additions to material regarding multicore architecture and organization