01 Computer Abstractions and Technology

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Alfred North Whitehead,
An Introduction to Mathematics, 1911

• 01 Introduction
• 02 Seven Great Ideas in Computer Architecture
• 03 Below Your Program
• 04 Under the Covers
• 05 Technologies for Building Processors and Memory
• 06 Defining Performance
• 07 The Power Wall
• 08 The Sea Change: The Switch from Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors
• 09 Real Stuff: Benchmarking the Intel Core i7
• 10 Going Faster: Matrix Multiply in Python
• 11 Fallacies and Pitfalls