Akka in Action

Akka in Action
Raymond Roestenburg (Author), Rob Bakker (Author), Rob Williams (Author)

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How Computers Work (10th Edition) (How It Works)

How Computers Work (10th Edition) (How It Works)
Ron White (Author), Timothy Downs (Author)

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Introduction to Computing Systems: From bits & gates to C & beyond

Introduction to Computing Systems: From bits & gates to C & beyond
Yale Patt (Author), Sanjay Patel (Author)
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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel (The Pragmatic Programmers)
Paul Butcher (Author)
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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel

Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel
Paul Butcher (Author)

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Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks development. Learn how to exploit the parallelism in your computer's GPU and leverage clusters of machines with MapReduce and Stream Processing. And do it all with the confidence that comes from using tools that help you write crystal clear, high-quality code.

This book will show you how to exploit different parallel architectures to improve your code's performance, scalability, and resilience.

Learn about the perils of traditional threads and locks programming and how to overcome them through careful design and by working with the standard library. See how actors enable software running on geographically distributed computers to collaborate, handle failure, and create systems that stay up 24/7/365. Understand why shared mutable state is the enemy of robust concurrent code, and see how functional programming together with technologies such as Software Transactional Memory (STM) and automatic parallelism help you tame it.

You'll learn about the untapped potential within every GPU and how GPGPU software can unleash it. You'll see how to use MapReduce to harness massive clusters to solve previously intractible problems, and how, in concert with Stream Processing, big data can be tamed.

With an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the different models and hardware architectures, you'll be empowered to tackle any problem with confidence.

What You Need:

The example code can be compiled and executed on *nix, OS X, or Windows. Instructions on how to download the supporting build systems are given in each chapter.

• Rank: #34033 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 7.52" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
David A. Patterson (Author), John L. Hennessy (Author)

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The 5th edition of Computer Organization and Design moves forward into the post-PC era with new examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. This generational change is emphasized and explored with updated content featuring tablet computers, cloud infrastructure, and the ARM (mobile computing devices) and x86 (cloud computing) architectures.

Because an understanding of modern hardware is essential to achieving good performance and energy efficiency, this edition adds a new concrete example, "Going Faster," used throughout the text to demonstrate extremely effective optimization techniques. Also new to this edition is discussion of the "Eight Great Ideas" of computer architecture.

As with previous editions, a MIPS processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O.

Instructors looking for 4th Edition teaching materials should e-mail textbook@elsevier.com.

• Optimization techniques featured throughout the text
• Covers parallelism in depth with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics
• Features the Intel Core i7, ARM Cortex-A8 and NVIDIA Fermi GPU as real-world examples throughout the book
• Online companion website provides links to simulators and compilers along with tutorials for using them, as well as additional advanced content, appendices, a glossary, references, "Historical Perspectives," and recommended reading

• Rank: #33438 in Books
• Published on: 2013-10-09
• Original language: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 800 pages