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This two-volume set provides comprehensive coverage of the field of computer organization and architecture. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Human Resource Management Review, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper takes, as its starting point, the fact that one of Europe's stated strategic goals over the next 10 years is to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based society in the world. Here, lifelong learning is viewed as a critical element of achieving this strategy, central not only to competitiveness and employability, but also to social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development. Learning is thus fast becoming the conventional wisdom of organizational life, and yet, perplexingly, the relationship between work and learning remains a complex one. Located at the cusp of organizational learning, the learning organization and knowledge management fields, this paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of organizational learning, arguing that, despite its inadequate conceptual coherence, it has been raised almost to the status of orthodoxy. In an attempt to address some of the inadequacies, the paper advances the idea of an architecture of organization-led learning that captures the consciously constructed systems and practices that could be put in place to facilitate learning at work. ... Read more

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Softcover edition of The Emerging Architecture of Organizations:Structures and Processes for the 1990's ... Read more

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This volume offers a unique approach to understanding and managing today's organizations as they are governed by mathematical and scientific systems that underly evolutionary biology. This opens the prospect of managing by an organizational model that incorporates those same systems and principles, and gives us a powerful new way to view both the organization and the market it serves. The Ven Matrix Architecture is the newest systems approach to "seeing the terrain of a system" and its marketplace. All this is in a "five dimension economy, a digital internetworked, trans-planetary system of competing markets that mimics the behavior of a globally extended bacterial colony." Were it not for the author's impeccable credentials one might raise an eyebrow at all this, but Venerable has the academic background and practical corporate experience to make us take what he says seriously. The result is a fascinating work for executives throughout the organization and for their academic colleagues. ... Read more

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Multithreaded computer architecture has emerged as one of themost promising and exciting avenues for the exploitation ofparallelism. This new field represents the confluence of severalindependent research directions which have united over a common set ofissues and techniques. Multithreading draws on recent advances indataflow, RISC, compiling for fine-grained parallel execution, anddynamic resource management. It offers the hope of dramaticperformance increases through parallel execution for a broad spectrumof significant applications based on extensions to `traditional'approaches. Multithreaded Computer Architecture is divided into four parts,reflecting four major perspectives on the topic. Part I provides thereader with basic background information, definitions, and surveys ofwork which have in one way or another been pivotal in defining andshaping multithreading as an architectural discipline. Part IIexamines key elements of multithreading, highlighting the fundamentalnature of latency and synchronization. This section presents clevertechniques for hiding latency and supporting large synchronizationname spaces. Part III looks at three major multithreaded systems,considering issues of machine organization and compilation strategy.Part IV concludes the volume with an analysis of multithreadedarchitectures, showcasing methodologies and actual measurements. Multithreaded Computer Architecture: A Summary of the State of theArt is an excellent reference source and may be used as a text foradvanced courses on the subject. ... Read more

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Chapters in Fast Simulation of Computer Architectures cover topics such as how to collect traces, emulate instruction sets, simulate microprocessors using execution-driven techniques, evaluate memory hierarchies, apply statistical sampling to simulation, and how to augment simulation with performance bound models. The chapters have been written by many of the leading researchers in the area, in a collaboration that ensures that the material is both coherent and cohesive.Audience: Of tremendous interest to practising computer architect designers seeking timely solutions to tough evaluation problems, and to advanced upper division undergraduate and graduate students of the field. Useful study aids are provided by the problems at the end of Chapters 2 through 8. ... Read more

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again!Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Out ... Read more

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Effective compilers allow for a more efficient execution ofapplication programs for a given computer architecture, whilewell-conceived architectural features can support more effectivecompiler optimization techniques. A well thought-out strategy oftrade-offs between compilers and computer architectures is the key tothe successful designing of highly efficient and effective computersystems. From embedded micro-controllers to large-scale multiprocessorsystems, it is important to understand the interaction betweencompilers and computer architectures.

The goal of the Annual Workshop on Interaction between Compilers andComputer Architectures (INTERACT) is to promote new ideas and topresent recent developments in compiler techniques and computerarchitectures that enhance each other's capabilities and performance.Interaction Between Compilers and Computer Architectures is anupdated and revised volume consisting of seven papers originallypresented at the Fifth Workshop on Interaction between Compilers andComputer Architectures (INTERACT-5), which was held in conjunctionwith the IEEE HPCA-7 in Monterrey, Mexico in 2001. This volumeexplores recent developments and ideas for better integration of theinteraction between compilers and computer architectures in designingmodern processors and computer systems.

Interaction Between Compilers and Computer Architectures issuitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course, and as areference for researchers and practitioners in industry. ... Read more

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This monograph surveys architectural mechanisms and implementation techniques for exploiting fine-grained and coarse-grained parallelism within microprocessors. It starts with a review of past techniques, continues with a comprehensive account of state-of-the-art techniques used in microprocessors that covers both the concepts involved and implementations in sample processors, and ends with a thorough review of the research techniques that will lead to future microprocessors. ... Read more

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good coverage
This book covers most of the state-of-the-art commercial processor microarchitectures as well as (almost) latest research and development both in academia and industries. Probably one of the broadest coverages among all published architecture book as of today. Well, not quite a textbook like CA:AQA by Hennessy and Patterson though. But it is a nice reference book for folks with architecture backgrounds.

An excellent review of processor architectures
This monograph does a fine job of reviewing the past, present, and emerging future of processor architectures in a a very approachable way. Even those who are not engineers, nor particularly familiar with theinnerworkings of computers should be able to get a lot of information outof this book, and come away with a better understanding of the systems theyinteract with daily. A very enjoyable read, and will bring even those morefamiliar with its material up to speed on architectures past and present. ... Read more

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This work is a comprehensive study of the field. It provides an entry point to the novice willing to move in the research field reconfigurable computing, FPGA and system on programmable chip design. The book can also be used as teaching reference for a graduate course in computer engineering, or as reference to advance electrical and computer engineers. It provides a very strong theoretical and practical background to the field, from the early Estrin’s machine to the very modern architecture such as embedded logic devices.

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Computing, but without the computations
In some ways, this book offers the most thorough introduction to reconfigurable computing (RC) that I've seen. It starts with the platforms themselves, from Estrin's work around 1960 up to this year's Virtex 5 family of FPGAs. That discussion includes mainstream technologies, as well as recent explorations into coarse-grained and other architectures and a few of the commercially failed ideas that have arisen over time.

The next two chapters address basic issues in logic synthesis, at the gate level and datapath level. No one intro can cover the entire literature of the field, but this goes into mathematically proven depth in a few important algorithms. Two more chapters (5 and 7) address re-use the computing fabric over time, first as a formal exercise combining geometric constraints with temporal dependencies and then as a pragmatic exercise in terms of current chips and tools. Despite the amount of research attention that partial reconfiguration has gotten, tools are still crude and researchy. Instead of a commercial tool flow, expect to find a series of isolated puddles. Two more chapters (6 and 8) address system-on-chip issues. Finally, chapter 9 devotes about 30 pages to RC applications - or does it?

Really, it just names the applications and mentions a bit of why reconfigurability suits them. It doesn't go into much depth about the computations themselves. Even then, the discussion has more multiprocessor-on-chip flavor than any real sense of what makes FPGA-based RC truly different from von Neumann. I don't think the term "systolic array" appears anywhere.

I suppose it depends on what you want. Tool-builders will find a solid intro that works forward from a cold start. They'll see familiar compilation technologies applied in distinctive ways, with plenty of references for anyone in need of details. They'll see many of the unique problems in swapping parts of the computation on and off a working chip. RC practitioners take synthesis for granted though - synthesis algorithms hold only incidental interest. Partial reconfiguration, as the author emphasizes it, works only on one or two of the most recent chip famiies from Xilinx, and not at all on the Altera chips that are becoming more common in the RC arena. Applications focus on the embedded - media, signal processing, and the like - with scant mention of performance computing, my central interest. Although wide-ranging and well-researched, I have trouble imagining the RC practitioner who will take this book to the lab bench.

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