The computing world today is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation today. The Fifth Edition of Computer Architecture focuses on this dramatic shift, exploring the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile computing devices. Each chapter includes two real-world examples, one mobile and one datacenter, to illustrate this revolutionary change. Updated to cover the mobile computing revolution Emphasizes the two most important topics in architecture today: memory hierarchy and parallelism in all its forms. Develops common themes throughout each chapter: power, performance, cost, dependability, protection, programming models, and emerging trends ("What's Next") Includes three review appendices in the printed text. Additional reference appendices are available online. Includes updated Case Studies and completely new exercises.

这本最畅销的计算机组成书籍经过全面更新，关注现今发生在计算机体系结构领域的革命性变革：从单处理器发展到多核微处理器，从串行发展到并行。与前几版一样，本书采用了MIPS处理器来展示计算机硬件技术、汇编语言、计算机算术、流水线、存储器层次结构以及I/O等基本功能。此外，本书还包括一些关于ARM和x86体系结构的介绍。 本书特色：  涵盖从串行计算到并行计算的革命性变革，新增了关于并行化的一章，并且每章中还有一些强调并行硬件和软件主题的小节。  新增一个由NVIDIA的首席科学家和架构主管撰写的附录，介绍了现代GPU的出现和重要性，首次详细描述了这个针对可视计算进行了优化的高度并行化、多线程、多核的处理器。  描述一种度量多核性能的独特方法——Roofline model模型，自带AMD Opteron X4、Intel Xeon 5000、Sun UltraSPARC T2和 IBM Cell的基准测试和分析。  涵盖一些关于闪存和虚拟机的新内容。  提供了大量富有启发性的练习题。  将AMD Opteron X4和Intel Nehalem作为贯穿本书的实例。  用SPEC CPU2006组件更新了所有处理器性能实例。

《计算机体系结构:量化研究方法(第5版)》是最权威的计算机体系结构著作，是久负盛名的经典作品。书中系统地介绍了计算机系统的设计基础、指令集系统结构、流水线和指令集并行技术、层次化存储系统与存储设备、互连网络以及多处理器系统等重要内容。在这个最新版中，作者增加了当前炙手可热的云计算和手机客户端技术等相关内容，探讨了在手机、平板电脑、笔记本电脑和其他移动计算设备上云计算的软硬件实现方式。

《计算机系统结构--量化研究方法》(第四版)中，作者更新了从单核处理器到多核处理器的历史发展过程的相关内容，同时使用了广受好评的“量化研究方法”进行计算设计，并阐述了多种可以实现并行的技术，这些技术恰恰是展现多处理器系统结构威力的关键。在介绍多处理器时，作者不仅讲述了处理器的性能，而且还介绍了处理器性能之外的其他设计要素，包括功耗、可靠性、可用性和可信性等。 本书可作为计算机专业计算机系统结构方向的高年级本科生及研究生的教材，也可以作为相关技术人员的参考书。

This book explains the important and enduring concepts underlying all computer systems, and shows the concrete ways that these ideas affect the correctness, performance, and utility of application programs. The book's concrete and hands-on approach will help readers understand what is going on “under the hood” of a computer system. This book focuses on the key concepts of basic network programming, program structure and execution, running programs on a system, and interaction and communication between programs. For anyone interested in computer organization and architecture as well as computer systems.