Advanced Computer Architecture And Parallel Processing

Computer architects have always strived to increase the performance of theircomputer architectures. High performance may come from fast dense circuitry,packaging technology, and parallelism. Single-processor supercomputers haveachieved unheard of speeds and have been pushing hardware technology to the physicallimit of chip manufacturing. However, this trend will soon come to an end,because there are physical and architectural bounds that limit the computationalpower that can be achieved with a single-processor system. In this book we willstudy advanced computer architectures that utilize parallelism via multiple processingunits