Parallel Computer Organization and Design

by Michel Dubois, Murali Annavaram, Per Stenström

Teaching fundamental design concepts and the challenges of emerging technology, this textbook prepares students for a career designing the computer systems of the future. In-depth coverage of complexity, power, reliability and performance, coupled with treatment of parallelism at all levels, including ILP and TLP, provides the state-of-the-art training that students need. The whole gamut of parallel architecture design options is explained, from core microarchitecture to chip multiprocessors to large-scale multiprocessor systems. All the chapters are self-contained, yet concise enough that the material can be taught in a single semester, making it perfect for use in senior undergraduate and graduate computer architecture courses. The book is also teeming with practical examples to aid the learning process, showing concrete applications of definitions. With simple models and codes used throughout, all material is made open to a broad range of computer engineering/science students with only a basic knowledge of hardware and software.

Genres: Computer Science, Textbooks

562 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2012

Reviews

[Jasneet Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Especially the chapters on Cache Coherency and Memory Consistency (Chapter 5 and 7)
These chapter explain not only the concepts, but show snippets of programs, how these concepts can be implemented in hardware, further performance optimizations and lastly share techniques on how to prove whether a given snippet is adhering to a particular model.