Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook from Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field, is fully revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture. The text now features examples from the RISC-V (RISC Five) instruction set architecture, a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to be a free and openly adoptable standard. It also includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures and an updated chapter on warehouse-scale computing that features the first public information on Google's newest WSC.
True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the longstanding tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computing innovation is happening, while always keeping an emphasis on good engineering design.
Key Features
- Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association
- Includes a new chapter on domain-specific architectures, explaining how they are the only path forward for improved performance and energy efficiency given the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling
- Features the first publication of several DSAs from industry
- Features extensive updates to the chapter on warehouse-scale computing, with the first public information on the newest Google WSC
- Offers updates to other chapters including new material dealing with the use of stacked DRAM; data on the performance of new NVIDIA Pascal GPU vs. new AVX-512 Intel Skylake CPU; and extensive additions to content covering multicore architecture and organization
- Includes "Putting It All Together" sections near the end of every chapter, providing real-world technology examples that demonstrate the principles covered in each chapter
- Includes review appendices in the printed text and additional reference appendices available online
- Includes updated and improved case studies and exercises
- ACM named John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, recipients of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry
Printed Text
1. Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis
2. Memory Hierarchy Design
3. Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation
4. Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU Architectures
5. Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism
6. The Warehouse-Scale Computer
7. Domain Specific Architectures
A. Instruction Set Principles
B. Review of Memory Hierarchy
C. Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts
Online
D. Storage Systems
E. Embedded Systems
F. Interconnection Networks
G. Vector Processors
H. Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPIC
I. Large-Scale Multiprocessors and Scientific Applications
J. Computer Arithmetic
K. Survey of Instruction Set Architectures
L. Advanced Concepts on Address Translation
M. Historical Perspectives and References
- Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware / Software Interface, 4e, 9780123747501, 2011, Morgan Kaufmann, $89.95
Graduate students and professional computer architects, computer system designers, compiler and system software developers, programmers, application developers
Very good. I would continue using it in my master level class.
Great book! Looking forward for a new edition
Una buena actualización de un libro que siempre ha sido espléndido.
The class will start January 2024. This is going to be a required text.
Good details with modern computing concepts, which is important for advanced/graduate computer architecture.
Esta es la obra de referencia a nivel mundial para cursos de Arquitectura de computadores. Una excelente aproximación que la convierten en la mejor opción como bibliografía básica.
The book is a great research but needs to be more focused so that it includes enough details for the topics covered.
Es un buen libro para entender desde una perspectiva práctica el tema de arquitectura de computadoras. Sin embargo, la estructura planteada y gran parte del libro no corresponde a un nivel introductorio universitario. La sección de cada capítulo "Historical Persprective and Reference" funcionan como un buen material de motivación para el inicio de cada lectura y permite generar un diálogo crítico con el estudiante.
Comprehensive book on the topic. The digital version is inconvenient, I'd prefer the printed one as desk/examination copy
This is a fundamental text on Computer Architecture for senior undergraduate or graduate courses who take the next level of detail in studying the topic of computer design today.
I have an earlier edition. This update is invaluable.