High-performance computer architecture

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5545963

Stone, H S

A significant portion of computer design activity has shifted toward high-performance designs as single-user desktop computers reach the point of delivering more computer power than yesterday's mainframes. This book presents design ideas embodied in many of these high-performance machines and stresses techniques for evaluating them. It develops an understanding of the design process by treating the various tradeoffs that exist in design choices. The author shows how good designs make efficient use of available technology and achieve balanced, efficient structures matched well to the class of problems they attack. The book stresses the means to achieve balance and efficiency in high-performance designs regardless of the underlying technology. Topics covered include: General architectural approaches such as memory designs, pipeline techniques, and parallel structures; fundamental bottlenecks such as memory bandwidth, processing bandwidth, communications, and synchronization; evaluation techniques; examples of real applications and their architectural requirements.

• OSTI ID: 5545963
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990210* -- Supercomputers-- (1987-1989)
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
COMPUTERS
DATA TRANSMISSION
DATA-FLOW PROCESSING
DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
EVALUATION
FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
MEMORY DEVICES
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
MICROPROCESSORS
PERFORMANCE
PROGRAMMING
SYNCHRONIZATION
USES