Advanced Computer Architectures.0849337585 Advanced computer architectures. Shiva Shiva or Siva (shē`və), one of the greatest gods of Hinduism, also called Mahadeva. The "horned god" and phallic worship of the Indus valley civilization may have been a prototype of Shiva worship or Shaivism. , Sajjan G. CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. / Taylor & Francis 2006 335 pages $99.95 Hardcover QA76.9 Focusing on the design of high performance supercomputers, Shiva (computer science, U. of Memphis) discusses hardware and software structures and application characteristics. Using the hardware structure as a basis for understanding programming and applications, he reviews the basics of uniprocessor architecture before outlining the most popular processing paradigms, performance evaluations Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return , and cost factor considerations. He then covers pipeline design and vector processors A computer with built-in instructions that perform multiple calculations on vectors (one-dimensional arrays) simultaneously. It is used to solve the same or similar problems as an array processor; however, a vector processor passes a vector to a functional unit, whereas an array processor , data parallel architectures, and multiprocessor Multiple processors. A multiprocessor machine uses two or more CPUs for routine processing. See multiprocessing. multiprocessor - parallel processing systems. The text concludes with current and emerging trends, such as Dataflow, Grid, biology-inspired and optical computing. Each chapter includes problems and references for further reading. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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