MGMT 1040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Ibm Z, Transmeta, Multiprocessing
8 May 2018
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MGMT 1040 Chapter 9 Notes – Summary
Introduction
• The following books and articles are particularly useful for their clear descriptions and
explanations of these topics.
• Stallings [STAL05] and Tanenbaum [TANE05] describe the different types of
architectures, focusing on the differences between CISC and RISC architectures in great
depth.
• Information about the VLIW and EPIC architectures may be found at the Transmeta and
Intel websites, respectively.
• The IBM website contains a wealth of information about zSeries, POWER, and Cell
architectures, including the Redbooks, which are free, downloadable, book-length
explanations of various computer topics.
• These range in difficulty from beginner to highly technical.
• Intel.com (for the x86 series) and sun.com (for the SPARC architecture) are other useful
brand-specific websites.
• Instruction sets, instruction formats, and addressing are discussed at length in every
computer architecture textbook.
• The book by Patterson and Hennessy [PATT07] covers the topics of thoroughly, and has
the additional benefit of being highly readable.
• A more advanced treatment, by the same authors, is found in [HENN06].
• Good discussions of multiprocessing are also found in Patterson and Hennessy and in
Tanenbaum.
• Two readable websites introducing the Cell processor are Gschwind, et. al. [GSCH06]
and Moore [MOOR06].
• A different approach to this material is to compare the architectures of various
machines.
• The book by Tabak [TABA95] looks at several different CPUs in detail.
• Most of these CPUs are obsolete.
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