Explains the software including SPEC CPU2000 suite for processors, SPEC Web99 for web servers, and EEMBC for embedded systems. This book features the developments of the Intel IA-32 architecture as well as the Power PC 604, the AMD Opteron Memory, and the Intrinsity FastMATH processor. It compares MIPs assembler code to both C and Java.

A textbook for computer systems analysis and design. It focuses on the revolutionary change taking place in industry: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. Emphasising on parallelism, it offers content on Flash memory and virtual machines as well as a important appendix covering the emergence and importance of the modern GPU.

Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors. This title focuses on this historic shift, providing coverage of multiprocessors and exploring the effective ways of achieving parallelism as the key to unlocking the power of multiple processor architectures.