Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Culler, J.p. Singh, Anoop Gupta
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 204100
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1100
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.4 x 2.1
ISBN: 1558603433
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.35
EAN: 9781558603431
ASIN: 1558603433
Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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Condition: First Indian Edition Year 2000
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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.
* synthesizes a decade of research and development for practicing engineers, graduate students, and researchers in parallel computer architecture, system software, and applications development
* presents in-depth application case studies from computer graphics, computational science and engineering, and data mining to demonstrate sound quantitative evaluation of design trade-offs
* describes the process of programming for performance, including both the architecture-independent and architecture-dependent aspects, with examples and case-studies
* illustrates bus-based and network-based parallel systems with case studies of more than a dozen important commercial designs
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 Worst possible book June 11, 2005
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
The book repeats lots of things. Its not well written. Don't buy this book. You will fall sick reading this in a few days.
 The Parallel Parallel to H&P May 5, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I guest lecture in a graduate level architecture course, and I always enjoy using this book as reference material when I want to lecture on cache coherency. This book is written from the correct perspective that obtaining parallelism is not easy, and so most of the book is spent on the various issues that come up when building a parallel machine. It is probably a good idea to read this book if you want to write parallel code, or if you just want to know why large scale supercomputers are not in wide use today.Previous uniprocessor architecture knowledge is required for the more interesting chapters. Thus, this book acts as a nice sequel to Henessey and Patterson.
 not well written April 3, 2002
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
I think the book is not especially well written. Sentences
are long and in some cases unprecise or directly wrong.The book often does often not provide sharp and good definitions and
it is not easy to extract the information contents, compared to many other books within this or related fields,
for an example "Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing"
by Hwang and Briggs, or books by M. Morris Mano.
Up-to-date information, but not in a simplified way April 23, 1999
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
this book was the recommended textbook for parallel architecture course which i took, it is a great book,since it covers the latest fields in parallel computers.But too difficult for a beginner, cause topics are explained in an advanced way, assuming a previous knowledge in parallel processing subjects.I find it more suitable for graduate or profissionals in this field rather than undergraduate students.
Great book for beginners and even experienced professionals! January 7, 1999
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have read this book and its a very good book which explains all the details ranging from cache architecture to the basics of parallel computer programming. I have not seen any book that talks in detail about SMP and cc-numa.
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