They have illustrated their principles with designs from all three domains, including examples from consumer electronics, multimedia and web technology, and high performance computing. This book maintains its features are highly rated: faults and traps, which share the hard lessons real designers; Historical Perspectives, which provide a deeper view on the history of computer design; Putting it all Together, which present a design example that illustrates the principles chapter principles; Worked Examples, which challenge readers to apply concepts, theories and methods in smaller scale problems, and Cross-Cutting Issues, which show how the ideas discussed in one chapter, presented in interacting with other people. In addition, new features, other View, presents brief design examples in one of the three domains other than those chosen for Putting It All Together. The authors present a new organization of the material as well, reducing the overlap with other text, Computer Organization and Design: A Hardware / Software Approach 2 / e, and offers a more in-depth treatment of advanced topics in multithreading, instruction level parallelism, VLIW architectures , memory hierarchy, storage devices and network technologies. Also new for this edition, is the adoption of the MIPS 64 as the instruction set architecture. * Example Presents design state-of-the-art include: * IA-64 architecture and its first implementation, the Itanium * Pipeline designs for Pentium III and Pentium IV * The cluster that runs the Google search engine * EMC storage systems and their performance * Sony Playstation 2 * Infiniband, a new storage area network system * Sunfire 6800 multiprocessor servers and UltraSPARC III processors * Trimedia TM32 media processor and the Transmeta Crusoe processor * Checking for quantitative performance analysis in the commercial server market and embedded markets, as well as traditional desktop market. Update all the examples and figures with the latest benchmarks, such as the SPEC 2000. * Expands coverage of instruction sets to include descriptions of digital signal processors, media processors, and multimedia extensions to desktop processors. * Analyzes capacity, cost, and performance of disks over two decades. The survey group's role in scientific computing and commercial computing. * Presents a survey, taxonomy, and benchmark errors and failures in computer systems. * Presents a detailed description of the design of storage systems and clusters. * Surveys memory hierarchy in modern microprocessors and the key parameters of modern disks. * Presents a glossary network.