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The Architecture of Supercomputers - Titan, a Case Study
von: Daniel P. Siewiorek, Philip John Koopman
Elsevier Reference Monographs, 2014
ISBN: 9781483268514 , 225 Seiten
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: DRM
Preis: 54,95 EUR
Front Cover
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The Architecture of Supercomputers: Titan, a Case Study
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Copyright Page
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Table of Contents
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FOREWORD
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PREFACE
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CHAPTER ONE. TITAN ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
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1.1 Visualization of Scientific Computations
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1.2 System Overview
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1.3 General Operation Principles
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1.4 From Concept to Realization
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1.5 The Next Generation
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CHAPTER TWO. ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION—ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE DESIGN
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2.1 In the Beginning: Uniprocessors
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2.2 Memory Performance Hierarchies
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2.3 Speedup through Specialization
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2.4 Concurrency through Overlap of Operations
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2.5 Concurrency through Replication
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2.6 Vector Operations
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2.7 Limits to Speedup: Amdahl's Law
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2.8 Summary
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CHAPTER THREE. PERFORMANCE AND BALANCE
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3.1 Hardware Performance Measures
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3.2 Kiviat Graphs
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3.3 System Performance Measures
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3.4 The Importance of Balance
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CHAPTER FOUR. HIERARCHICAL MODEL OF COMPUTATION
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4.1 A High-Level Model of Computation
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4.2 A More Detailed Model of Computation
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4.3 Primitive Operations
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CHAPTER FIVE. TITAN ARCHITECTURE AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION
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5.1 System Bus
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5.2 Memory
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5.3 Integer Unit
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5.4 Vector Processing Unit
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5.5 Graphics Processing Unit
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5.6 I/O
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5.7 Reliability Features
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5.8 An Example of System Operation
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5.9 Feature Summary
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CHAPTER SIX. ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS OF TITAN
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6.1 System Bus
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6.2 Memory
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6.3 Integer Unit
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6.4 Vector Processing Unit
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6.5 Graphics Processing Unit
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6.6 I/O
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6.7 Analysis of System Throughput and Plumbing Diagram
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CHAPTER SEVEN. BENCHMARKS AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
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7.1 LINPACK and LAPACK
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7.2 Elementary Functions
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7.3 The P3 Modifications for Improved Performance
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7.4 The Eleven Rules of Supercomputer Design
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APPENDIX A: THE TITAN BUS
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A.1 Introduction
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A.2 Write and Read Bus Transactions
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A.3 Other Transaction Types
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A.4 Error Detection and Handling
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APPENDIX B: TITAN P2 SPECIFICATION SUMMARY
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APPENDIX C: GLOSSARY OF TERMS
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REFERENCES
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INDEX
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