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.
  • ISBN10 1280581441
  • ISBN13 9781280581441
  • Publish Date 10 May 2014 (first published 1 August 1998)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 17 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 1056
  • Language English