Advanced Computer Architecture By Kai Hwang

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Kai Hwang is presently a Presidential Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shenzhen, China. He also serves as a Chief Scientist at the Cloud Computing Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has taught at the University of Southern California and at Purdue University for 46 years prior joining CUHK. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Dr. Hwang has published extensively in the fields of computer architecture, parallel processing, cloud computing, and network security.

His book Distributed and Cloud Computing (648 pages), coauthored with Geoffrey Fox and Jack Dongarra, was published by Morgan Kauffman in 2012. This book covers distributed systems, computer clusters, virtualization, supercomputers, computing grids, P2P systems, Internet clouds, Internet of Things, and social networks. Visit the Web site: ( -architecture-books for details. A Chinese translation of this book appeared in January 2013. The American Library Association has named this book among the top 6 outstanding academic titles of 2012.

In 2017, Dr. Hwang has published two new books: Cloud Computing for Machine Learning and Cognitive Applications (The MIT Press, 601 pages) and Big Data Analytics for Cloud/IoT and Cognitive Computing (Wiley in UK, 410 pages). These two books consolidate his past 10 years of frontier research and updated teaching achievements at USC, THU, and CUHK-Shenzhen. The Chinese edition of these two books are published by Huazhang Books, Beijing in 2018.

Professor Hwang Kai is a Presidential Chair Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining CUHK in 2018, he has taught at the University of Southern California (USC) and at Purdue University for 45 years. He also served as a distinguished Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and the University of Hong Kong. At present, he is also the director of the Research Center on Internet of Things and Smart Cloud, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS). His team mainly develops intelligent medical cloud platforms and multi-agent intelligent applications in digital cities.

Professor Hwang is a pioneer in parallel processing computer architecture field. He has published 10 English monographs about computers and the Internet, six of which have been adopted worldwide and translated into 4 foreign languages from the English editions. He also published 280 papers. According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited for over 20,500 times with an H-index of 62 currently. In 1983, he published the "Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing" and lectured back in China for many times, which significantly promoted the development of high-performance computing and the establishment of Kylin OS, Sugon, and Tianhe supercomputer systems.

Professor Hwang has received a number of awards for his research contributions. He was honored with the 2012 IEEE World Cloud Computing Conference Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 70th Anniversary Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Award and 2020 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award. He has trained thousands of professionals in the computer science field in China, which includes 6 academicians, 10 IEEE/CCF fellows, and more than 30 leading professionals in computer science field. The China Computer Federation (CCF) awarded Professor Hwang the first 2005 Outstanding Overseas Scholar Achievement Award in recognition of his great contribution to China's engineering science and technology. The Outstanding Overseas Scholars Contribution Award is the highest award issued by CCF to overseas scholars.

K. Hwang and F. A. Briggs, Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, a graduate-level textbook by McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1984, (846 pages). Chinese translation by Science Press, China, in 1987. Spanish translation by A. B. Paloma and J. Ruz Ortiz, Univ. of Madrid, Libros McGraw-Hill De Mexico, Spain 1988.

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Instruction set architecture, CISC Scalar Processors , RISC Scalar Processors, VLIWarchitecture, Memory Hierarchy, Inclusion, Coherence and Locality, Memory capacity planning.Interleaved memory organization- memory interleaving, pipelined memory access, Bandwidthand Fault Tolerance. Backplane Bus System :Backplane bus specification, Addressing andtiming protocols, Arbitration transaction and interrupt.

UNIT 4:
Cache coherence, Snoopy protocols, Directory based protocols. Message routing schemes inmulticomputer network, deadlock and virtual channel. Vector Processing Principles, VectorInstruction types, Vector-access memory schemes. Vector supercomputer architecture, SIMDorganization: distributed memory model and shared memory model. Principles ofMultithreading: Multithreading Issues and Solutions, Multiple-Context Processors

UNIT 5:
Parallel Programming Models, Shared-Variable Model, Message-Passing Model, Data-ParallelModel, Object-Oriented Model, Functional and Logic Models, Parallel Languages andCompilers, Language Features for Parallelism, Parallel Programming Environment, SoftwareTools and Environments

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