Chip multiprocessor architecture techiniques to improve throughput and latency /

• Main Author: Olukotun, Kunle.
• Other Authors: Hammond, Lance., Laudon, James.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2007.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on computer architecture (Online) ; #3.
• Subjects: Parallel processing (Electronic computers); High performance processors.; Computer architecture.
• Online Access: Abstract with links to full text

Chip multiprocessors - also called multi-core microprocessors or CMPs for short - are now the only way to build high-performance microprocessors, for a variety of reasons. Large uniprocessors are no longer scaling in performance, because it is only possible to extract a limited amount of parallelism...

Table of Contents:

• The case for CMPs
• Improving throughput
• Improving latency automatically
• Improving latency using manual parallel programming
• A multicore world: The future of CMPs.