Computers - Computer Architecture

Understanding the architecture is only the beginning. Operating an enterprise IBM Z environment is where systems programming truly comes to life.IBM Z Systems Programming - Volume II: Program Execution and Enterprise Facilities explores the technologies and services that transform IBM Z from a powerful...

Advanced GPU Assembly ProgrammingMost GPU performance problems are not source-code problems. They are machine-code problems.A kernel can look clean in CUDA or HIP and still lose the war at the hardware level.The compiler may choose an instruction sequence you did not expect. A branch...

Deliver developer-friendly infrastructure with automation, AI acceleration, and real-world platform patterns all built from scratch on your laptopKey Features: - Hands-on guide to designing, deploying, and evolving engineering platforms with real-world patterns- Focus on developer experience, enabling self-service, scalability, and AI augmentation from day...

Why do great engineers and team leads stumble when scaling up? Why do thriving businesses fumble large-scale technical transformations? At its core, a business is a way of managing how money enters, circulates, and leaves an organization. Yet most software engineers stick to code...

Master Your Apple Watch SE 3 with Confidence Even If You Are a Complete BeginnerThe Apple Watch SE 3 is packed with powerful features, but many users never unlock its full potential because the setup and menus can feel confusing at first.This beginner-friendly guide...

In an era defined by global disruptions, sustainability mandates and rapid technological advancement, Next-Gen Supply Chains provides an essential roadmap for navigating the complex transformation of global supply networks. This comprehensive book moves beyond isolated trends to present an integrated framework where generative AI,...

This thesis provides design and analysis of techniques for global load balancing on ensemble architectures running soft-real-time object-oriented applications with statistically periodic loads. It focuses on estimating the instantaneous average load over all the processing elements. The major contribution is the use of explicit...

Unchained Vision explores the future of startups in the Web 3.0 era through the lens of Unison.gg. This groundbreaking guide unpacks decentralized product and financial management, blending real-world strategies, governance innovation, and token economies to empower founders, creators, and investors navigating the next evolution...

"From Idea to Market: A Guide to DIY Electronics Entrepreneurship" is an all-encompassing guide that demystifies the exciting world of DIY electronics entrepreneurship. Produced by Paul Lawrence, an accomplished self-made electronics entrepreneur, this report is a comprehensive roadmap for anyone who has ever dreamed...

Dive into the future of urban ecosystems with "Smart Cities: Combining Technology and Sustainability", a groundbreaking special report from noted technology evangelist and urban planning expert, Dr. Bertram Cox. This user-friendly guide takes you on an enlightening journey through the intricate interplay of cutting-edge...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on CParallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT 2018, held in Jeju Island, South Korea, in August 2018. The 35 revised full papers presented along with the 14 short papers and were...

Interoperability has been a requirement in NATO ever since the Alliance came into being - an obvious requirement when 16 independent Nations agree to allocate national resources for the achievement of a common goal: to maintain peace. With the appearance of data processing in...

This book presents as formal papers nearly all of the lectures given at the NATO advanced summer institute on Computer Architecture held at St. Raphael, France from September 12th - 24th 1976. It was not possible to include an important paper by G. Amdahl...

This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the nineteenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which took place on September 14-16, 2016, in Bremen, Germany. FDL is a well-established international forum devoted to dissemination of...

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the design of security-hardened, hardware intellectual property (IP). Readers will learn how IP can be threatened, as well as protected, by using means such as hardware obfuscation/camouflaging, watermarking, fingerprinting (PUF), functional locking, remote activation, hidden...

The two-volume set LNCS 15406 and 15407 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Russian Supercomputing Days International Conference, RuSCDays 2024, held in Moscow, Russia, during September 2024. The 43 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 95...

The three-volume set LNCS 15338, 15339 and 15340 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 41st Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2024, held during July 1-5, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland. The 84 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 211...

Digital arithmetic plays an important role in the design of general-purpose digital processors and of embedded systems for signal processing, graphics, and communications. In spite of a mature body of knowledge in digital arithmetic, each new generation of processors or digital systems creates new...

"The Grid is an emerging infrastructure that will fundamentally change the way we think about-and use-computing. The word Grid is used by analogy with the electric power grid, which provides pervasive access to electricity and has had a dramatic impact on human capabilities and...

The fact that there are more embedded computers than general-purpose computers and that we are impacted by hundreds of them every day is no longer news. What is news is that their increasing performance requirements, complexity and capabilities demand a new approach to their...

Digital arithmetic plays an important role in the design of general-purpose digital processors and of embedded systems for signal processing, graphics, and communications. In spite of a mature body of knowledge in digital arithmetic, each new generation of processors or digital systems creates new...

This book is a comprehensive guide to new DFT methods that will show the readers how to design a testable and quality product, drive down test cost, improve product quality and yield, and speed up time-to-market and time-to-volume. . Most up-to-date coverage of design...

Load Balancing in Parallel Computers: Theory and Practice is about the essential software technique of load balancing in distributed memory message-passing parallel computers, also called multicomputers. Each processor has its own address space and has to communicate with other processors by message passing. In...

The Essential Criteria of Graph Databases collects several truly innovative graph applications in asset-liability and liquidity risk management to spark readers' interest and further broaden the reach and applicable domains of graph systems. Although AI has incredible potential, it has three weak links: 1....

Foundations of High Performance Computing: A Comprehensive Guide to Systems, Concepts, and Programming offers a comprehensive reference on high-performance computing (HPC). Laying the groundwork for the companion text, High-Performance Computing: Applications and Frontiers, this book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental concepts,...

Build the Production Platform for Reliable Autonomous AI AgentsAgentic AI is transitioning from experimental prototypes to mission-critical enterprise systems. But while building a single chatbot is easy, engineering the reliable infrastructure required to run autonomous multi-agent workflows at scale is incredibly difficult. Agentic AI...

Explore the design of a RISC-V DSP processor using the SpringCore architecture, covering pipeline design, DSP acceleration, LLVM toolchain support, debugging with OpenOCD, and integration into a real SoCKey Features: - Explore the SpringCore RISC-V DSP architecture and its custom ISA extensions- Understand an...

As conventional silicon Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology continues to shrink, logic circuits are increasingly subject to errors in- duced by electrical noise and cosmic radiation. In addition, the smaller devices are more likely to degrade and fail in operation. In the long term, new...

"Compilation Techniques for VLIW Architectures" explores the intricate methods of optimizing code for Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. This technical study delves into the specific challenges and solutions encountered when translating high-level programming languages into efficient machine code for parallel execution on VLIW...

Soft computing is a consortium of computing methodologies that provide a foundation for the conception, design, and deployment of intelligent systems and aims to formalize the human ability to make rational decisions in an environment of uncertainty and imprecision. This book is based on...

Delivering great service is no longer optional, it's essential. This practical guide unlocks the power of service design and equips service designers with proven frameworks and techniques that enable the co-creation of customer-centric services. This book features an extensive, illustrative case study to support...

This book gives practitioners a concrete, systematic framework for designing evals that make AI systems safe, robust, and customer-ready before they reach production. Drawing on real-world failures, from chatbots that went off the rails to shopping assistants that hallucinated product information, it shows how...

Learn how to write Java code faster by using the Vector API for SIMD operations. This book shows you how to apply data-level parallelism to common algorithms without leaving the Java ecosystem, making modern CPU capabilities accessible to everyday developers. The book uses a...

Technology platforms are the backbone of digital transformation, but success isn't just about building technology, it's about architecting lasting impact. Many organizations struggle with complexity, scalability, and adoption, often repeating mistakes that lead to technical debt and missed opportunities. This book identifies common pitfalls...

This book provides an overview of current Intellectual Property (IP) based System-on-Chip (SoC) design methodology and highlights how security of IP can be compromised at various stages in the overall SoC design-fabrication-deployment cycle. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the security vulnerabilities of...

Author: Stephen H. KaislerISBN-10: 1527560325ISBN-13: 9781527560321Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2020Pages: 457Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.30d

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Power Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, PEIE 2011, held at Nagpur, India, in April 2011. The 9 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers and 7 poster papers were...

This book contains the best papers of the International Conference on Advances in Power Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, PEIE 2010, organized by the Association of Computer Electronics and Electrical Engineers (ACEEE), during September 7-9, 2010 in Kochi, Kerala, India. PEIE is an international conference...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Euro-Par Conference held in Ischia, Italy, in August/September 2010. The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 256 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and...

This book introduces readers to a variety of tools for automatic analog integrated circuit (IC) sizing and optimization. The authors provide a historical perspective on the early methods proposed to tackle automatic analog circuit sizing, with emphasis on the methodologies to size and optimize...

Disseminating Security Updates at Internet Scale describes a new system, "Revere", that addresses these problems. "Revere" builds large-scale, self-organizing and resilient overlay networks on top of the Internet to push security updates from dissemination centers to individual nodes. "Revere" also sets up repository servers...

What if your AI systems could retrieve information, reason over complex knowledge, plan actions, and continuously learn--all while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance? Agentic Graph RAG guides technical leaders, engineers, and architects through the next evolution of generative AI. Combining retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with...

Embedded C Fundamentals for Firmware Engineering is a practical, hands-on guide for anyone who wants to confidently write low-level software for microcontrollers and embedded systems. Designed for students, hobbyists, and early-career engineers, this book focuses on the real skills needed to move from basic...

There is a gap in most computing sciences curricula. Performance is largely ignored. As a result there is a lot of misunderstanding of performance in the IT industry. For a variety of reasons driving a performance course into a curriculum is usually not practical....

Minds and Machines: The Philosophical Foundations and Core Pillars of AI ApplicationsIn today's media landscape, headlines frequently herald AI miracles, yet organizations seeking tangible results often encounter frustration. Minds and Machines cuts decisively through this noise, presenting a clear, actionable framework that empowers enterprises...

The book begins by establishing the concept of cloud computing and describing the technological trends, and then discusses cloud computing architecture connotation and key technologies such as computing, storage, network, data, management, access, and security. With abundant project experiences and applications, the book is...

This textbook introduces readers to the fundamental hardware used in modern computers. The only pre-requisite is algebra, so it can be taken by college freshman or sophomore students or even used in Advanced Placement courses in high school. This book presents both the classical...

This book contains selected papers from the ONR Workshop on Parallel Algorithm Design and Program Transformation that took place at New York University, Courant Institute, from Aug. 30 to Sept. 1, 1991. The aim of the workshop was to bring together computer scientists in...

Enterprises are under pressure to apply generative AI to their data, but most data platforms weren't designed to support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based conversational systems. Built for dashboards and siloed reporting, they often lack context, structure, and governance that AI applications require. RAG-Ready Patterns for...

Are you still building ESP32 projects that work on your desk... but fall apart in the real world?Have you ever asked yourself why some embedded systems run flawlessly for years-handling unstable networks, power fluctuations, and scaling demands-while others fail quietly after deployment?What if the...