Computers : Computer Architecture

The FireWire (IEEE 1394) standard for high-speed serial bus communications has come to the forefront as an important technology supporting today's emerging data-intensive applications. FireWire System Architecture provides an in-depth description of the IEEE 1394a standard including the cable environment, arbitration enhancements, improvements in the bus timing, new PHY register definition and port interface enhancements to support suspend/resume and port disable. The book also describes the various hardware and software layers that make up the FireWire serial bus and provides transaction examples to explain and illustrate the relationship between each layer. more...

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The only book on the market to cover the latest release of Oracle Data Guard. Written by a team of Oracle Data Guard experts, this Oracle Press guide offers undocumented best practices and real-world techniques for Oracle's data availability and protection solution. Extensive automated scripts are included, enabling you to successfully set up and manage Data Guard. Oracle Database 11g Data Guard Handbook begins by covering architecture, configuration, and infrastructure. Next, you will find details on Data Guard Broker, Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, active standby databases, Data Guard failover, backup and recovery considerations, troubleshooting, and more. A case study chapter brings together much of the content covered in the book. more...

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Advanced Trading Rules is the essential guide to state of the art techniques currently used by the very best financial traders, analysts and fund managers. The editors have brought together the world's leading professional and academic experts to explain how to understand, develop and apply cutting edge trading rules and systems. It is indispensable reading if you are involved in the derivatives, fixed income, foreign exchange and equities markets. 'Advanced Trading Rules' demonstrates how to apply econometrics, computer modelling, technical and quantitative analysis to generate superior returns, showing how you can stay ahead of the curve by finding out why certain methods succeed or fail. Profit from this book by understanding how to use: * stochastic properties of trading strategies * technical indicators * neural networks * genetic algorithms * quantitative techniques * charts Financial markets professionals will discover a wealth of applicable ideas and methods to help them to improve their performance and profits. Students and academics working in this area will also benefit from the rigorous and theoretically sound analysis of this dynamic and exciting area of finance. more...

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The series covers new developments in computer technology. Most chapters present an overview of a current subfield within computers, with many citations, and often include new developments in the field by the authors of the individual chapters. Topics include hardware, software, theoretical underpinnings of computing, and novel applications of computers. This current volume emphasizes architectural advances and includes five chapters on hardware development, games for mobile devices such as cell phones, and open source software development. The book series is a valuable addition to university courses that emphasize the topics under discussion in that particular volume as well as belonging on the bookshelf of industrial practitioners who need to implement many of the technologies that are described. more...

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Contains chapters on various aspects of computer architecture. The key features of this volume include: range of research topics; coverage of topics such as power management, Network on Chip, Load balancing in distributed systems, and pervasive computing; and simple writing style. more...

Price: $160.00