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Computer Architecture and High Performance

Computer Architecture and High Performance
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A practical guide to modern computer architecture, high-performance systems, microarchitecture, parallelism, and evidence-based performance analysis.

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Computer Architecture and High Performance provides a practical and technically grounded guide to modern processor and system architecture. The book covers instruction set architecture, microarchitecture, pipelining, out-of-order execution, cache and memory hierarchies, virtual memory, parallelism, memory ordering, NUMA, vectorization, accelerators, performance counters, benchmarking methodology, compiler–architecture interaction, energy and thermal limits, and reliability concepts. A central focus is evidence-based performance analysis: measurements are interpreted within reproducible diagnostic and engineering workflows rather than in isolation. The book is intended for software and systems engineers, performance engineers, computer science and engineering students, and readers who want to understand, measure, and optimize modern computer performance.

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