The Cray X-MP/Model 24: A Case Study in Pipelined Architecture and Vector Processing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 374)

Looking for the Holy Grail of computing? The answer lies in the past with the work of Seymour Cray pioneering the concept that lean code designed to work with “off the shelf” hardware out performs “bleeding edge” technology. Getting all the components to play together is of the utmost importance. And he proved it with the Cray X-MP!Before you go out and buy that integrated 1000 core/storage/routing miracle machine layered up with virtualization software then operating system(s) on top of that (How do you spell wasted cycles?) you must read this book.For those looking to write great code “The Cray X-MP/Model 24 – A Case Study in Pipelined Architecture and Vector Processing” is a well written paper on how to effectively deal with computational throughput on the assembly language level. Even those that are not familiar with code on that level will benefit just by being made aware of bottlenecks in the flow of data through memory, and CPUs. The lecture notes describe in detail and with code examples how typical problems of latency are dealt with. The principles of the past are still, if not more, relevant today. I recommend this book.