Computer Architecture Henesey Patterson Edition5

In Praise of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

Fifth Edition

“The 5th edition of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach continues

the legacy, providing students of computer architecture with the most up-to-date

information on current computing platforms, and architectural insights to help

them design future systems. A highlight of the new edition is the significantly

revised chapter on data-level parallelism, which demystifies GPU architectures

with clear explanations using traditional computer architecture terminology.”

—Krste Asanovic, University of California, Berkeley

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“Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach is a classic that, like fine

wine, just keeps getting better. I bought my first copy as I finished up my undergraduate degree and it remains one of my most frequently referenced texts today.

When the fourth edition came out, there was so much new material that I needed

to get it to stay current in the field. And, as I review the fifth edition, I realize that

Hennessy and Patterson have done it again. The entire text is heavily updated and

Chapter 6 alone makes this new edition required reading for those wanting to

really understand cloud and warehouse scale-computing. Only Hennessy and

Patterson have access to the insiders at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other

cloud computing and internet-scale application providers and there is no better

coverage of this important area anywhere in the industry.”

—James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services

“Hennessy and Patterson wrote the first edition of this book when graduate students built computers with 50,000 transistors. Today, warehouse-size computers

contain that many servers, each consisting of dozens of independent processors

and billions of transistors. The evolution of computer architecture has been rapid

and relentless, but Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach has kept

pace, with each edition accurately explaining and analyzing the important...