Fundamentals of parallel multicore architecture. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yan Solihin.
• Authors: Solihin, Yan
• Contents: Perspectives on Multicore Architectures; The Origin of the Multicore Architecture; Perspectives on Parallel Computers; Future Multicore Architectures Perspectives on Parallel Programming ; Limits on Parallel Program Performance; Parallel Programming Models Shared Memory Parallel Programming ; Steps in Parallel Programming; Dependence Analysis; Identifying Parallel Tasks in Loop Structures; Identifying Parallelism at Other Levels; Identifying Parallelism through Algorithm Knowledge; Determining the Scope of Variables; Synchronization; Assigning Tasks to Threads; Mapping Threads to Processors; A Brief Introduction to OpenMP Parallel Programming for Linked Data Structures; Parallelization Challenges in LDS; Approaches to Parallelization of LDS; Parallelization Techniques for Linked Lists; The Role of Transactional Memory Introduction to Memory Hierarchy Organization; Motivation for Memory Hierarchy; Basic Architectures of a Cache; Cache Performance; Prefetching; Cache Design in Multicore Architecture; Physical Cache Organization; Logical Cache Organization; Case Studies Introduction to Shared Memory Multiprocessors ; The Cache Coherence Problem; Memory Consistency Problem; Synchronization Problem Basic Cache Coherence Issues; Overview; Cache Coherence in Bus-Based Multiprocessors; Impact of Cache Design on Cache Coherence Performance; Performance and Other Practical Issues; Broadcast Protocol with Point-to-Point Interconnect Hardware Support for Synchronization ; Lock Implementations; Barrier Implementations; Transactional Memory Memory Consistency Models; Programmers’ Intuition; Architecture Mechanisms for Ensuring Sequential Consistency; Relaxed Consistency Models; Synchronization in Different Memory Consistency Models Advanced Cache Coherence Issues; Directory Coherence Protocols; Overview of Directory Coherence Protocol; Basic Directory Cache Coherence Protocol; Implementation Correctness and Performance; Contemporary Design Issues Interconnection Network Architecture ; Link, Channel, and Latency; Network Topology; Routing Policies and Algorithms; Router Architecture; Case Study: Alpha 21364 Network Architecture; Multicore Design Issues SIMT Architecture; SIMT Programming Model; Mapping SIMT Workloads to SIMT Cores; SIMT Core Architecture Ask the Experts Exercises appear at the end of each chapter.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 004.35; Multiprocessors
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498753418; 9781482211191; 9781482211207
• Related ISBNs: 9781482211184
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