In Praise of Computer Organization and Design:The Hardware/ Software Interface,Revised Fourth Edition "Patterson and Hennessy not only improve the pedagogy of the traditional mate- rial on pipelined processors and memory hierarchies,but also greatly expand the multiprocessor coverage to include emerging multicore processors and GPUs.The fourth edition of Computer Organization and Design sets a new benchmark against which all other architecture books must be compared." -David A.Wood,University of Wisconsin-Madison "Patterson and Hennessy have greatly improved what was already the gold stan- dard of textbooks.In the rapidly evolving field of computer architecture,they have woven an impressive number of recent case studies and contemporary issues into a framework of time-tested fundamentals." -Fred Chong,University of California at Santa Barbara "Since the publication of the first edition in 1994,Computer Organization and Design has introduced a generation of computer science and engineering students to computer architecture.Now,many of those students have become leaders in the field.In academia,the tradition continues as faculty use the latest edition of the book that inspired them to engage the next generation.With the fourth edition, readers are prepared for the next era of computing." -David I.August,Princeton University "The new coverage of multiprocessors and parallelism lives up to the standards of this well-written classic.It provides well-motivated,gentle introductions to the new topics,as well as many details and examples drawn from current hardware." -John Greiner,Rice University "As computer hardware architecture moves from uniprocessor to multicores,the parallel programming environments used to take advantage of these cores will be a defining challenge to the success of these new systems.In the multicore systems, the interface between the hardware and software is of particular importance.This new edition of Computer Organization and Design is mandatory for any student who wishes to understand multicore architecture including the interface between programming it and its architecture." -Jesse Fang,Director of Programming System Lab at Intel "The fourth edition of Computer Organization and Design continues to improve the high standards set by the previous editions.The new content,on trends that are reshaping computer systems including multicores,Flash memory,GPUs,etc., makes this edition a must read-even for all of those who grew up on previous editions of the book” -Parthasarathy Ranganathan,Principal Research Scientist,HP LabsIn Praise of Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/ Software Interface, Revised Fourth Edition “Patterson and Hennessy not only improve the pedagogy of the traditional mate￾rial on pipelined processors and memory hierarchies, but also greatly expand the multiprocessor coverage to include emerging multicore processors and GPUs. The fourth edition of Computer Organization and Design sets a new benchmark against which all other architecture books must be compared.” —David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Patterson and Hennessy have greatly improved what was already the gold stan￾dard of textbooks. In the rapidly evolving field of computer architecture, they have woven an impressive number of recent case studies and contemporary issues into a framework of time-tested fundamentals.” —Fred Chong, University of California at Santa Barbara “Since the publication of the first edition in 1994, Computer Organization and Design has introduced a generation of computer science and engineering students to computer architecture. Now, many of those students have become leaders in the field. In academia, the tradition continues as faculty use the latest edition of the book that inspired them to engage the next generation. With the fourth edition, readers are prepared for the next era of computing.” —David I. August, Princeton University “The new coverage of multiprocessors and parallelism lives up to the standards of this well-written classic. It provides well-motivated, gentle introductions to the new topics, as well as many details and examples drawn from current hardware.” —John Greiner, Rice University “As computer hardware architecture moves from uniprocessor to multicores, the parallel programming environments used to take advantage of these cores will be a defining challenge to the success of these new systems. In the multicore systems, the interface between the hardware and software is of particular importance. This new edition of Computer Organization and Design is mandatory for any student who wishes to understand multicore architecture including the interface between programming it and its architecture.” —Jesse Fang, Director of Programming System Lab at Intel “The fourth edition of Computer Organization and Design continues to improve the high standards set by the previous editions. The new content, on trends that are reshaping computer systems including multicores, Flash memory, GPUs, etc., makes this edition a must read—even for all of those who grew up on previous editions of the book.” —Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Principal Research Scientist, HP Labs