Introduction to Parallel Processing
Algorithms and Architectures
Authors: Parhami, Behrooz
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THE CONTEXT OF PARALLEL PROCESSING The field of digital computer architecture has grown explosively in the past two decades. Through a steady stream of experimental research, tool-building efforts, and theoretical studies, the design of an instruction-set architecture, once considered an art, has been transformed into one of the most quantitative branches of computer technology. At the same time, better understanding of various forms of concurrency, from standard pipelining to massive parallelism, and invention of architectural structures to support a reasonably efficient and user-friendly programming model for such systems, has allowed hardware performance to continue its exponential growth. This trend is expected to continue in the near future. This explosive growth, linked with the expectation that performance will continue its exponential rise with each new generation of hardware and that (in stark contrast to software) computer hardware will function correctly as soon as it comes off the assembly line, has its down side. It has led to unprecedented hardware complexity and almost intolerable dev- opment costs. The challenge facing current and future computer designers is to institute simplicity where we now have complexity; to use fundamental theories being developed in this area to gain performance and ease-of-use benefits from simpler circuits; to understand the interplay between technological capabilities and limitations, on the one hand, and design decisions based on user and application requirements on the other.
- Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Introduction to Parallelism
Pages 3-23
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A Taste of Parallel Algorithms
Pages 25-43
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Parallel Algorithm Complexity
Pages 45-63
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Models of Parallel Processing
Pages 65-86
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PRAM and Basic Algorithms
Pages 89-108
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Introduction to Parallel Processing
- Book Subtitle
- Algorithms and Architectures
- Authors
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- Behrooz Parhami
- Series Title
- Series in Computer Science
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-306-46964-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/b116777
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-306-45970-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4757-7243-2
- Series ISSN
- 1567-7974
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 532
- Topics
