Computers - Computer Architecture

"Ask not what your compiler can do for you, ask what you can do for your compiler."--John Levesque, Director of Cray's Supercomputing Centers of ExcellenceThe next decade of computationally intense computing lies with more powerful multi/manycore nodes where processors share a large memory space....

The architects of today's large and complex systems all too often struggle with the lack of a consistent set of principles and practices that adequately address the entire breadth of systems architecture. The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA) enables system architects and...

Parallel Supercomputing in MIMD Architectures is devoted to supercomputing on a wide variety of Multiple-Instruction-Multiple-Data (MIMD)-class parallel machines. This book describes architectural concepts, commercial and research hardware implementations, major programming concepts, algorithmic methods, representative applications, and benefits and drawbacks. Commercial machines described include Connection...

It was once widely believed that quantum computation would never become a reality. However, the discovery of quantum error correction and the proof of the accuracy threshold theorem nearly ten years ago gave rise to extensive development and research aimed at creating a working,...

Computer and microprocessor architectures are advancing at an astounding pace. However, increasing demands on performance coupled with a wide variety of specialized operating environments act to slow this pace by complicating the performance evaluation process. Carefully balancing efficiency and accuracy is key to avoid...

As a customer, have you ever felt dissatisfied with a product or service? Is it possible that customers may be similarly unhappy with your company? Being aware of and exploring your consumers' diversity constitutes the best source of information available if you are to...

In the area of Digital Image Processing the new area of "Time-Varying Image Processing and Moving Oject Recognition" is contributing to impressive advances in several fields. Presented in this volume are new digital image processing and recognition methods, implementation techniques and advanced applications such...

The book deals with the most recent technology of distributed computing.As Internet continues to grow and provide practical connectivity between users of computers it has become possible to consider use of computing resources which are far apart and connected by Wide Area Networks.Instead of...

Twelve problems have been added to the first edition; four of them are supplements to problems in the first edition. The others deal with issues that have become important, since the first edition of Volume II, in recent developments of various areas of physics....

Fault-Tolerant Systems, Second Edition, is the first book on fault tolerance design utilizing a systems approach to both hardware and software. No other text takes this approach or offers the comprehensive and up-to-date treatment that Koren and Krishna provide. The book comprehensively covers the...

High Performance Parallelism Pearls shows how to leverage parallelism on processors and coprocessors with the same programming - illustrating the most effective ways to better tap the computational potential of systems with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Intel Xeon processors or other multicore processors....

Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL 2.0 teaches OpenCL and parallel programming for complex systems that may include a variety of device architectures: multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and fully-integrated Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). This fully-revised edition includes the latest enhancements in OpenCL 2.0 including: - Shared virtual...

Problem-Solving in High Performance Computing: A Situational Awareness Approach with Linux focuses on understanding giant computing grids as cohesive systems. Unlike other titles on general problem-solving or system administration, this book offers a cohesive approach to complex, layered environments, highlighting the difference between standalone...

Virtual platforms are finding widespread use in both pre- and post-silicon computer software and system development. They reduce time to market, improve system quality, make development more efficient, and enable truly concurrent hardware/software design and bring-up. Virtual platforms increase productivity with unparalleled inspection, configuration,...

Top-Down VLSI Design: From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs represents a unique approach to learning digital design. Developed from more than 20 years teaching circuit design, Doctor Kaeslin's approach follows the natural VLSI design flow and makes circuit design accessible for professionals with...

One of the biggest challenges in chip and system design is determining whether the hardware works correctly. That is the job of functional verification engineers and they are the audience for this comprehensive text from three top industry professionals.As designs increase in complexity, so...

The divide between UX and Web development can be stifling. Bridging UX and Web Development prepares you to break down those walls by teaching you how to integrate with your team's developers. You examine the process from their perspective, discovering tools and coding principles...

High Speed Digital Design discusses the major factors to consider in designing a high speed digital system and how design concepts affect the functionality of the system as a whole. It will help you understand why signals act so differently on a high speed...

Emerging Trends in ICT Security, an edited volume, discusses the foundations and theoretical aspects of ICT security; covers trends, analytics, assessments and frameworks necessary for performance analysis and evaluation; and gives you the state-of-the-art knowledge needed for successful deployment of security solutions in many...

Digital Electronics and Design with VHDL offers a friendly presentation of the fundamental principles and practices of modern digital design. Unlike any other book in this field, transistor-level implementations are also included, which allow the readers to gain a solid understanding of a circuit's...

Efficient design of embedded processors plays a critical role in embedded systems design. Processor description languages and their associated specification, exploration and rapid prototyping methodologies are used to find the best possible design for a given set of applications under various design constraints, such...

Network processors are the basic building blocks of today's high-speed, high-demand, quality-oriented communication networks. Designing and implementing network processors requires a new programming paradigm and an in-depth understanding of network processing requirements. This book leads the reader through the requirements and the underlying theory...

The design of today's semiconductor chips for various applications, such as telecommunications, poses various challenges due to the complexity of these systems. These highly complex systems-on-chips demand new approaches to connect and manage the communication between on-chip processing and storage components and networks on...

Customizable processors have been described as the next natural step in the evolution of the microprocessor business: a step in the life of a new technology where top performance alone is no longer sufficient to guarantee market success. Other factors become fundamental, such as...

This book is essential reading for those wishing to obtain a systems perspective and a broad view on the background, performance and application of the latest developments in HSPA in the context of the demands on today's mobile broadband devices and networks. It takes...

This book presents a systematic approach to the design of large, complex distributed systems using the concepts and mechanisms defined by the Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP). Focusing on the key choices that make an architectural design robust and durable, the authors...

Summary OSGi in Depth shows Java developers how to develop to the OSGi Service Platform Enterprise specification, an emerging Java-based technology for developing modular enterprise applications.About the TechnologyOSGi is a mature framework for developing modular Java applications. Because of its unique architecture, you can...

Author: A. V. Dovgal,Andre Dovgal,Dmitri OlechkoISBN-10: 1849689121ISBN-13: 9781849689120Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2014Pages: 456Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.92d

Author: Nigel King,Adil KhanISBN-10: 1849681708ISBN-13: 9781849681704Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2012Pages: 488Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.98d

Author: Richard Seroter,Ewan Fairweather,Rama RamaniISBN-10: 184968054XISBN-13: 9781849680547Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2010Pages: 544Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.04lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.10d

Author: Kristen PolISBN-10: 1849518181ISBN-13: 9781849518185Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2012Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.30d

Author: Matt ButcherISBN-10: 1849518009ISBN-13: 9781849518000Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2012Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.22d

Author: Matt R. ColeISBN-10: 1789533686ISBN-13: 9781789533682Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2018Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.53d

Microservices and containers are here to stay and in today's world, Docker is emerging as the de-facto standard for scalability. Deploying Docker into production is considered to be one of the major pain points in developing large-scale infrastructures; however, the documentation available online leaves...

Summary As a developer, you may inherit projects built on existing codebases with design patterns, usage assumptions, infrastructure, and tooling from another time and another team. Fortunately, there are ways to breathe new life into legacy projects so you can maintain, improve, and scale...

This book introduces different interconnection networks applied to different systems. Interconnection networks are used to communicate processing units in a multi-processor system, routers in communication networks, and servers in data centers. Queuing techniques are applied to interconnection networks to support a higher utilization of...

This book examines the present and future of soft computer techniques. It explains how to use the latest technological tools, such as multicore processors and graphics processing units, to implement highly efficient intelligent system methods using a general purpose computer.Author: Oscar Humberto Montiel RossISBN-10:...

Safety-critical systems, by definition those systems whose failure can cause catastrophic results for people, the environment, and the economy, are becoming increasingly complex both in their functionality and their interactions with the environment. Unfortunately, safety assessments are still largely done manually, a time-consuming and...

This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in Computer Education (ICFCE 2014), which was held December 24-25, 2014, in Wuhan, China. The objective of this conference was to provide a forum for different researchers in different fields,...

Information Technology (IT) is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. IT has become one of the most fundamental technologies in today's social life, and there are...

Information systems are complex, including data collecting, storing, processing and delivering. The main components of information systems are computer hardware and software, telecommunications, databases and data warehouses, human resources, and procedures. With the development of information systems, the innovation technologies and their applications continuously...

This is the first book to introduce the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem. It gives developers a basic understanding of the ecosystem and how to leverage kit and tool capabilities to make their apps better.Author: Xihai Wang,Yue Wang,Hailiang WuISBN-10: 1032073934ISBN-13: 9781032073934Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is an integration of cyber components with their physical counterparts. A cyber unit could be either a software or hardware. Physical components are those objects, which are governed by the law of physics. CPS have transformed how we interact with...

The first comprehensive and up-to-date reference on mechatronics, Robert Bishop's The Mechatronics Handbook was quickly embraced as the gold standard in the field. With updated coverage on all aspects of mechatronics, The Mechatronics Handbook, Second Edition is now available as a two-volume set. Each...

Industry, government, and academic efforts to create a generalized systems engineering process have repeatedly fallen short. The outcome? Systems engineering failures that produce losses like the September 1999 destruction of the Mars Climate Orbiter. A simple information transfer error between teams motivated far-reaching managerial...

The author developed Lightweight Enterprise Architecture (LEA) to enable a quick alignment of technology to business strategy. LEA's simple and effective framework makes it useful to a wide audience of users throughout an enterprise, coordinating resources for business requirements and facilitating optimal adoption of...

This book presents the basic knowledge and illustrative examples to build dynamic and robust web applications using the .NET Framework technology. It stresses the use of code-behind procedural coding and useful for those interested in web application development and to visual basic programmers.Author: Dudley...

With the new developments in computer architecture, fairly recent publications can quickly become outdated. Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware takes a modern approach. This comprehensive, practical text provides that critical understanding of a central processor by clearly detailing fundamentals, and cutting edge...

Focusing solely on the information that is essential to the field, this text provides fundamental concepts and examples　on computer organization. Using a top-down approach, the text begins at digital circuitry level, and works up to the machine language level. Numerous architectures are also covered,...

A comprehensive overview of the current evolution of research in algorithms, architectures and compilation for parallel systems is provided by this publication.The contributions focus specifically on domains where embedded systems are required, either oriented to application-specific or to programmable realisations. These are crucial in...