Parallel Computer Organization and Design

A design-oriented text for advanced computer architecture courses, covering parallelism, complexity, power, reliability and performance.

Michel Dubois (Author), Murali Annavaram (Author), Per Stenström (Author)

9780521886758, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 August 2012

562 pages, 206 b/w illus. 49 tables 95 exercises
25.2 x 19.2 x 2.9 cm, 1.3 kg

'An excellent book in an area that has long cried out for tutorial material - it will be an indispensable resource to students and educators in parallel computer architecture.' Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois

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.

1. Introduction
2. Impact of technology
3. Processor microarchitecture
4. Memory hierarchies
5. Multiprocessor systems
6. Interconnection networks
7. Coherence, synchronization, and memory consistency
8. Chip multiprocessors
9. Quantitative evaluations.

Subject Areas: Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Microwave technology [TJFN], Automatic control engineering [TJFM], Electronic devices & materials [TJFD], Circuits & components [TJFC], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]