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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson

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  • Jensen HuangOfficial episode book recommendation
    The official Ezra Klein Show episode notes list Computer Architecture by John Hennessy and David Patterson among Huang’s book recommendations. His edition is not identified; this record describes the sixth edition.
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Summary

The sixth edition develops quantitative methods for computer architecture. It covers processor and system design, parallelism, memory, domain-specific architectures and warehouse-scale computing, with power, performance and cost as design constraints.

  • SourcePublisher or author checked description and edition · Elsevier publisher details: sixth edition, November 23, 2017, Hennessy and Patterson, ISBN 9780128119051; description of architecture methods and cases. Huang’s edition is not identified.

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Use quantitative cost, power and performance trade-offs to design processors and computing systems; includes domain-specific and warehouse-scale architecture.