Fundamentals of Parallel Multicore Architecture (Hardcover)

Although multicore is now a mainstream architecture, there are few textbooks that cover parallel multicore architectures. Filling this gap, Fundamentals of Parallel Multicore Architecture provides all the material for a graduate or senior undergraduate course that focuses on the architecture of multicore processors. The book is also useful as a reference for professionals who deal with programming on multicore or designing multicore chips.

The text’s coverage of fundamental topics prepares students to study research papers in the multicore architecture area. The text offers many pedagogical features, including:

• Sufficiently short chapters that can be comfortably read over a weekend
• Introducing each concept by first describing the problem and building intuition that leads to the need for the concept
• "Did you know?" boxes that present mini case studies, alternative points of view, examples, and other interesting facts or discussion items
• Thought-provoking interviews with experts who share their perspectives on multicore architectures in the past, present, and future
• Online programming assignments and solutions that enhance students’ understanding

The first several chapters address programming issues in shared memory multiprocessors, such as the programming model and techniques to parallelize regular and irregular applications. The core of the book covers the architectures for shared memory multiprocessors. The final chapter contains interviews with experts in parallel multicore architecture.

儘管多核心現在已成為主流架構，但很少有教科書涵蓋並行多核心架構。填補這一空白，《並行多核心架構基礎》提供了一個研究生或高年級本科課程所需的所有材料，重點是多核心處理器的架構。該書也可作為處理多核心編程或設計多核心芯片的專業人士的參考資料。

該書對基本主題的涵蓋使學生能夠研究多核心架構領域的研究論文。該書提供了許多教學特點，包括：

- 足夠短的章節，可以在一個週末舒適地閱讀完畢
- 通過首先描述問題並建立直觀來引入每個概念，從而引出對該概念的需求
- “你知道嗎？”框，呈現迷你案例研究、不同觀點、示例和其他有趣的事實或討論項目
- 與專家的發人深省的訪談，他們分享他們對過去、現在和未來多核心架構的觀點
- 在線編程作業和解答，增強學生的理解能力

前幾章討論了共享內存多處理器中的編程問題，例如編程模型和將常規和非常規應用程序並行化的技術。該書的核心部分涵蓋了共享內存多處理器的架構。最後一章包含了對並行多核心架構專家的訪談。