Category: Design Architecture

By Michael D Duffy

OpenVMS pros have lengthy loved a strong, full-featured working method compatible for the main mission-critical functions in life. besides the fact that, a lot of contemporary graduates would possibly not but have had the chance to adventure it for themselves. meant for an viewers with a few wisdom of working structures corresponding to home windows, UNIX and Linux, Getting began with OpenVMS introduces the reader to the OpenVMS approach.Part 1 is a realistic creation to get the reader begun utilizing the approach. The reader will examine the OpenVMS terminology and method of universal recommendations equivalent to procedures and threads, queues, consumer profiles, command line and GUI interfaces and networking. half 2 offers extra in-depth information regarding the key elements for the reader needing a extra technical description. issues contain procedure constitution, scheduling, reminiscence administration and the dossier method. brief sections at the background of OpenVMS, together with prior, current, and destiny help (like the Intel Itanium migration), are included.Allows the extra complex reader a few meaty content material but doesn't crush the beginner provides a high-level review of recommendations at the back of internals akin to reminiscence administration contains descriptions of administration capabilities reminiscent of procedure startup and shutdown for these readers who might need to procure their very own OpenVMS structures publications the recent person during the strategy of logging into an OpenVMS approach for the 1st time

By David Culler, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Anoop Gupta Ph.D.

The most fun improvement in parallel desktop structure is the convergence of typically disparate methods on a typical computing device constitution. This ebook explains the forces at the back of this convergence of shared-memory, message-passing, info parallel, and data-driven computing architectures. It then examines the layout concerns which are serious to all parallel structure around the complete variety of recent layout, overlaying info entry, conversation functionality, coordination of cooperative paintings, and proper implementation of worthwhile semantics. It not just describes the and software program ideas for addressing every one of those concerns but in addition explores how those innovations engage within the similar procedure. interpreting structure from an application-driven point of view, it presents complete discussions of parallel programming for top functionality and of workload-driven overview, according to knowing hardware-software interactions.

• synthesizes a decade of analysis and improvement for working towards engineers, graduate scholars, and researchers in parallel desktop structure, procedure software program, and purposes development
• presents in-depth software case reviews from special effects, computational technological know-how and engineering, and knowledge mining to illustrate sound quantitative review of layout trade-offs
• describes the method of programming for functionality, together with either the architecture-independent and architecture-dependent facets, with examples and case-studies
• illustrates bus-based and network-based parallel structures with case reports of greater than a dozen vital advertisement designs

By Evan Tick

Hugely parallel machines were on hand for a few years yet, simply because advances in have continually outpaced growth in software program improvement, designers and clients of those machines have not begun to achieve their complete capability. until eventually lately there were few, if any, high-class parallel programming languages that may be applied at the big range of parallel processing structures in use. This publication is helping to redress the stability through educating programming suggestions in addition to functionality research of parallel programming languages and architectures utilizing common sense programming; in particular, it makes a speciality of the Prolog-like languages OR-parallel Prolog and AND-parallel FGHC.

Parallel common sense Programming brings to mild sensible purposes of a formerly esoteric/theoretical region of parallel common sense programming and is exclusive in providing programming hand-in-hand with functionality research of genuine empirical measurements. Its quantitative method of symbolic parallel programming presents scholars and pros with instruments for enforcing and significantly comparing better tasks. The e-book comprises valuable bankruptcy summaries, programming initiatives, and a word list

By Ivan Pepelnjak

A sensible consultant to realizing, designing, and deploying MPLS and MPLS-enabled VPNs

• In-depth research of the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) structure
• Detailed dialogue of the mechanisms and lines that represent the structure
• Learn how MPLS scales to help tens of hundreds of thousands of VPNs
• Extensive case experiences consultant you thru the layout and deployment of real-world MPLS/VPN networks
• Configuration examples and guidance help in configuring MPLS on Cisco® units
• Design and implementation thoughts assist you construct a variety of VPN topologies

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is an cutting edge strategy for high-performance packet forwarding. there are lots of makes use of for this new know-how, either inside a service-provider atmosphere and in the firm community, and the main broadly deployed utilization at the present time is the allowing of digital inner most Networks (VPNs). With the creation of MPLS-enabled VPNs, community designers may be able to higher scale their networks than with the equipment to be had within the past.

Network engineers and directors want quickly, potent schooling in this expertise to successfully installation MPLS-enabled VPNs inside of their networks. With that objective in brain, MPLS and VPN Architectures presents an in-depth dialogue specific to Cisco's MPLS structure. This e-book covers MPLS concept and configuration, community layout matters, and case experiences in addition to one significant MPLS software: MPLS-based VPNs. The MPLS/VPN structure and all its mechanisms are defined with configuration examples, urged layout and deployment instructions, and huge case studies.

MPLS and VPN Architectures is your functional advisor to figuring out, designing, and deploying MPLS and MPLS-based VPNs.

By Cheng-Chi Wong, Hsie-Chia Chang

This ebook describes the newest ideas for rapid decoder implementation, specially for 4G and past 4G purposes. The authors show concepts for the layout of high-throughput decoders for destiny telecommunication structures, permitting designers to minimize expense and shorten processing time. insurance contains a proof of VLSI implementation of the rapid decoder, from uncomplicated sensible devices to complicated parallel structure. The authors talk about either structure suggestions and experimental effects, displaying the diversities in area/throughput/performance with recognize to a number of innovations. This publication additionally illustrates faster decoders for 3GPP-LTE/LTE-A and IEEE 802.16e/m criteria, which offer a low-complexity yet high-flexibility circuit constitution to help those criteria in a number of parallel modes. in addition, a few strategies that may triumph over the challenge upon the speedup of parallel structure by means of amendment to faster codec are provided right here. in comparison to the normal designs, those equipment may end up in at such a lot 33% achieve in throughput with related functionality and related cost.

By Peter Norton

No competing booklet presents a closer realizing of the operating ideas and operations of the pc to a common viewers. guarantees greatest productiveness via supplying an intimate operating wisdom of the private laptop in any respect degrees. makes use of the original "Peter Norton" strategy: specialist suggestion in a common, hands-on exploratory mode. themes lined: inside of IBM-standard computers, processors, disks, reminiscence, peripherals, networking (including the Internet), and the most recent advancements in three-D audio and video.

By Marco Lanzagorta

This booklet covers applied sciences, purposes, instruments, languages, techniques, merits, and downsides of reconfigurable supercomputing utilizing box Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). the objective viewers is the group of clients of excessive functionality pcs (HPC) who may gain advantage from porting their functions right into a reconfigurable atmosphere. As such, this publication is meant to steer the HPC person during the many algorithmic concerns, possible choices, usability matters, programming languages, and layout instruments that must be understood earlier than embarking at the production of reconfigurable parallel codes. we are hoping to teach that FPGA acceleration, in accordance with the exploitation of the information parallelism, pipelining and concurrency is still promising in view of the diminishing advancements in conventional processor and procedure layout. desk of Contents: FPGA know-how / Reconfigurable Supercomputing / Algorithmic concerns / FPGA Programming Languages / Case learn: Sorting / replacement applied sciences and Concluding comments

By Paul Allen, Joseph Bambara

The single classroom-based education and self-assessment procedure! This research consultant presents a hundred% whole assurance of all goals for the sunlight qualified Architect for J2EE examination. in accordance with 300,000+ hours of IT education event, the ebook includes hundreds and hundreds of perform examination questions and hands-on routines. The CD-ROM positive aspects complete perform examination software program with interactive tutorials and lab simulations, plus an adaptive try engine.

By Barry Wilkinson

This ebook is worried with various concepts for making improvements to the functionality of desktops. half 1 discusses the basic the right way to increase functionality, half 2 examines multiprocessor platforms utilizing shared reminiscence, and half three discusses desktops no longer utilizing shared reminiscence. Concentrating upon innovations and the ensuing functionality, the textual content offers chapters on reminiscence administration, cache reminiscence, pipelining, decreased guide set pcs (RISCs), unmarried bus multiprocessor structures, interconnection networks, message-passing multiprocessor structures, and dataflow platforms. there's additionally insurance of shared-memory multiprocessor platforms and multiprocessors with out shared reminiscence. The textual content is interspersed with case reviews.