Reviewers

Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina; Diana Franklin, The University of California, Santa Barbara; Norman P. Jouppi, HP Labs; Gregory Peterson, University of Tennessee; Parthasarathy Ranganathan, HP Labs; Mark Smotherman, Clemson University; Gurindar Sohi, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Mateo Valero, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; Sotirios G. Ziavras, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Members of the University of California–Berkeley Par Lab and RAD Lab who gave frequent reviews of Chapter 1, 4, and 6 and shaped the explanation of GPUs and WSCs: Krste Asanovic´, Michael Armbrust, Scott Beamer, Sarah Bird, Bryan Catanzaro, Jike Chong, Henry Cook, Derrick Coetzee, Randy Katz, Yunsup Lee, Leo Meyervich, Mark Murphy, Zhangxi Tan, Vasily Volkov, and Andrew Waterman

Advisory Panel

Luiz André Barroso, Google Inc.; Robert P. Colwell, R&E Colwell & Assoc. Inc.; Krisztian Flautner, VP of R&D at ARM Ltd.; Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State; David Kirk, NVIDIA; Grant Martin, Chief Scientist, Tensilica; Gurindar Sohi, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Mateo Valero, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña

Appendices

Krste Asanovic´, University of California, Berkeley (Appendix G); Thomas M. Conte, North Carolina State University (Appendix E); José Duato, Universitat Politècnica de València and Simula (Appendix F); David Goldberg, Xerox PARC (Appendix J); Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California (Appendix F)

José Flich of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia provided significant contributions to the updating of Appendix F.

Case Studies with Exercises

Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina (Chapters 3 and 4); Diana Franklin, University of California, Santa Barbara (Chapter 1 and Appendix C); Norman P. Jouppi, HP Labs (Chapter 2); Naveen Muralimanohar, HP Labs (Chapter 2); Gregory Peterson, University of Tennessee (Appendix A); Parthasarathy Ranganathan, HP Labs (Chapter 6); Amr Zaky, University of Santa Clara (Chapter 5 and Appendix B)

Jichuan Chang, Kevin Lim, and Justin Meza assisted in the development and testing of the case studies and exercises for Chapter 6.

Additional Material

John Nickolls, Steve Keckler, and Michael Toksvig of NVIDIA (Chapter 4 NVIDIA GPUs); Victor Lee, Intel (Chapter 4 comparison of Core i7 and GPU); John Shalf, LBNL (Chapter 4 recent vector architectures); Sam Williams, LBNL (Roofline model for computers in Chapter 4); Steve Blackburn of Australian National University and Kathryn McKinley of University of Texas at Austin (Intel performance and power measurements in Chapter 5); Luiz Barroso, Urs Hölzle, Jimmy Clidaris, Bob Felderman, and Chris Johnson of Google (the Google WSC in Chapter 6); James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services (power distribution and cost model in Chapter 6)

Jason D. Bakos of the University of South Carolina developed the new lecture slides for this edition.

Finally, a special thanks once again to Mark Smotherman of Clemson University, who gave a final technical reading of our manuscript. Mark found numerous bugs and ambiguities, and the book is much cleaner as a result.

This book could not have been published without a publisher, of course. We wish to thank all the Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier staff for their efforts and support. For this fifth edition, we particularly want to thank our editors Nate McFadden and Todd Green, who coordinated surveys, the advisory panel, development of the case studies and exercises, focus groups, manuscript reviews, and the updating of the appendices.

We must also thank our university staff, Margaret Rowland and Roxana Infante, for countless express mailings, as well as for holding down the fort at Stanford and Berkeley while we worked on the book.

Our final thanks go to our wives for their suffering through increasingly early mornings of reading, thinking, and writing.

Reviewers

George Adams, Purdue University; Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Jim Archibald, Brigham Young University; Krste Asanovic´, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jean-Loup Baer, University of Washington; Paul Barr, Northeastern University; Rajendra V. Boppana, University of Texas, San Antonio; Mark Brehob, University of Michigan; Doug Burger, University of Texas, Austin; John Burger, SGI; Michael Butler; Thomas Casavant; Rohit Chandra; Peter Chen, University of Michigan; the classes at SUNY Stony Brook, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Clemson, and Wisconsin; Tim Coe, Vitesse Semiconductor; Robert P. Colwell; David Cummings; Bill Dally; David Douglas; José Duato, Universitat Politècnica de València and Simula; Anthony Duben, Southeast Missouri State University; Susan Eggers, University of Washington; Joel Emer; Barry Fagin, Dartmouth; Joel Ferguson, University of California, Santa Cruz; Carl Feynman; David Filo; Josh Fisher, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Rob Fowler, DIKU; Mark Franklin, Washington University (St. Louis); Kourosh Gharachorloo; Nikolas Gloy, Harvard University; David Goldberg, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; Antonio González, Intel and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; James Goodman, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia; David Harris, Harvey Mudd College; John Heinlein; Mark Heinrich, Stanford; Daniel Helman, University of California, Santa Cruz; Mark D. Hill, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Martin Hopkins, IBM; Jerry Huck, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Wen-mei Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University; Truman Joe; Norm Jouppi; David Kaeli, Northeastern University; Roger Kieckhafer, University of Nebraska; Lev G. Kirischian, Ryerson University; Earl Killian; Allan Knies, Purdue University; Don Knuth; Jeff Kuskin, Stanford; James R. Larus, Microsoft Research; Corinna Lee, University of Toronto; Hank Levy; Kai Li, Princeton University; Lori Liebrock, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Mikko Lipasti, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Gyula A. Mago, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Bryan Martin; Norman Matloff; David Meyer; William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James Mooney; Trevor Mudge, University of Michigan; Ramadass Nagarajan, University of Texas at Austin; David Nagle, Carnegie Mellon University; Todd Narter; Victor Nelson; Vojin Oklobdzija, University of California, Berkeley; Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University; Bob Owens, Pennsylvania State University; Greg Papadapoulous, Sun Microsystems; Joseph Pfeiffer; Keshav Pingali, Cornell University; Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California; Bruno Preiss, University of Waterloo; Steven Przybylski; Jim Quinlan; Andras Radics; Kishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph Rameh, University of Texas, Austin; Anthony Reeves, Cornell University; Richard Reid, Michigan State University; Steve Reinhardt, University of Michigan; David Rennels, University of California, Los Angeles; Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Kaushik Roy, Purdue University; Emilio Salgueiro, Unysis; Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, University of Texas at Austin; Peter Schnorf; Margo Seltzer; Behrooz Shirazi, Southern Methodist University; Daniel Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University; J. P. Singh, Princeton; Ashok Singhal; Jim Smith, University of Wisconsin–-Madison; Mike Smith, Harvard University; Mark Smotherman, Clemson University; Gurindar Sohi, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Arun Somani, University of Washington; Gene Tagliarin, Clemson University; Shyamkumar Thoziyoor, University of Notre Dame; Evan Tick, University of Oregon; Akhilesh Tyagi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Dan Upton, University of Virginia; Mateo Valero, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona; Anujan Varma, University of California, Santa Cruz; Thorsten von Eicken, Cornell University; Hank Walker, Texas A&M; Roy Want, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; David Weaver, Sun Microsystems; Shlomo Weiss, Tel Aviv University; David Wells; Mike Westall, Clemson University; Maurice Wilkes; Eric Williams; Thomas Willis, Purdue University; Malcolm Wing; Larry Wittie, SUNY Stony Brook; Ellen Witte Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sotirios G. Ziavras, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Appendices

The vector appendix was revised by KrsteAsanovic´ of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The floating-point appendix was written originally by David Goldberg of Xerox PARC.

Exercises

George Adams, Purdue University; Todd M. Bezenek, University of Wisconsin–Madison (in remembrance of his grandmother Ethel Eshom); Susan Eggers; Anoop Gupta; David Hayes; Mark Hill; Allan Knies; Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz; Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Compaq Western Research Laboratory; Brandon Schwartz, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Michael Scott; Dan Siewiorek; Mike Smith; Mark Smotherman; Evan Tick; Thomas Willis

Case Studies with Exercises

Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Robert P. Colwell, R&E Colwell & Assoc., Inc.; Diana Franklin, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Norman P. Jouppi, HP Labs; John W. Sias, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Special Thanks

Duane Adams, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Tom Adams; Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Anant Agarwal; Dave Albonesi, University of Rochester; Mitch Alsup; Howard Alt; Dave Anderson; Peter Ashenden; David Bailey; Bill Bandy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Luiz Barroso, Compaq’s Western Research Lab; Andy Bechtolsheim; C. Gordon Bell; Fred Berkowitz; John Best, IBM; Dileep Bhandarkar; Jeff Bier, BDTI; Mark Birman; David Black; David Boggs; Jim Brady; Forrest Brewer; Aaron Brown, University of California, Berkeley; E. Bugnion, Compaq’s Western Research Lab; Alper Buyuktosunoglu, University of Rochester; Mark Callaghan; Jason F. Cantin; Paul Carrick; Chen-Chung Chang; Lei Chen, University of Rochester; Pete Chen; Nhan Chu; Doug Clark, Princeton University; Bob Cmelik; John Crawford; Zarka Cvetanovic; Mike Dahlin, University of Texas, Austin; Merrick Darley; the staff of the DEC Western Research Laboratory; John DeRosa; Lloyd Dickman; J. Ding; Susan Eggers, University of Washington; Wael El-Essawy, University of Rochester; Patty Enriquez, Mills; Milos Ercegovac; Robert Garner; K. Gharachorloo, Compaq’s Western Research Lab; Garth Gibson; Ronald Greenberg; Ben Hao; John Henning, Compaq; Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Danny Hillis; David Hodges; Urs Hölzle, Google; David Hough; Ed Hudson; Chris Hughes, University of Illinois at Urbana–-Champaign; Mark Johnson; Lewis Jordan; Norm Jouppi; William Kahan; Randy Katz; Ed Kelly; Richard Kessler; Les Kohn; John Kowaleski, Compaq Computer Corp; Dan Lambright; Gary Lauterbach, Sun Microsystems; Corinna Lee; Ruby Lee; Don Lewine; Chao-Huang Lin; Paul Losleben, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Yung-Hsiang Lu; Bob Lucas, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Ken Lutz; Alan Mainwaring, Intel Berkeley Research Labs; Al Marston; Rich Martin, Rutgers; John Mashey; Luke McDowell; Sebastian Mirolo, Trimedia Corporation; Ravi Murthy; Biswadeep Nag; Lisa Noordergraaf, Sun Microsystems; Bob Parker, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Vern Paxson, Center for Internet Research; Lawrence Prince; Steven Przybylski; Mark Pullen, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Chris Rowen; Margaret Rowland; Greg Semeraro, University of Rochester; Bill Shannon; Behrooz Shirazi; Robert Shomler; Jim Slager; Mark Smotherman, Clemson University; the SMT research group at the University of Washington; Steve Squires, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Ajay Sreekanth; Darren Staples; Charles Stapper; Jorge Stolfi; Peter Stoll; the students at Stanford and Berkeley who endured our first attempts at creating this book; Bob Supnik; Steve Swanson; Paul Taysom; Shreekant Thakkar; Alexander Thomasian, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John Toole, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Kees A. Vissers, Trimedia Corporation; Willa Walker; David Weaver; Ric Wheeler, EMC; Maurice Wilkes; Richard Zimmerman.

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