Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software
Approach
David Culler
J.P. Singh
Anoop Gupta
ISBN: 978-1-55860-343-1
The most exciting development in parallel
computer architecture is the convergence of traditionally disparate
approaches on a common machine structure. This book explains the
forces behind this convergence of shared-memory, message-passing,
data parallel, and data-driven computing architectures. It then
examines the design issues that are critical to all parallel architecture
across the full range of modern design, covering data access, communication
performance, coordination of cooperative work, and correct implementation
of useful semantics. It not only describes the hardware and software
techniques for addressing each of these issues but also explores
how these techniques interact in the same system. Examining architecture
from an application-driven perspective, it provides comprehensive
discussions of parallel programming for high performance and of
workload-driven evaluation, based on understanding hardware-software
interactions... [more]
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