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Multicore Processors and Systems

  • Provides a comprehensive overview of emerging multicore processors and systems
  • Covers technology trends affecting multicores, multicore architecture innovations, multicore software innovations, and case studies of state-of-the-art commercial multicore systems
  • Includes chapters on fundamental requirements for multicore systems, including processing, memory systems, and interconnect
  • Contains case studies on commercial multicore systems that have recently been developed and deployed across multiple application domains
  • Focuses on innovative multicore execution models as well as infrastructure for multicores, including memory systems and on-chip interconnections in the architecture chapters
  • Examines multicore implementations across different application domains, including general purpose, server, media/broadband, network processing, and signal processing in the case studies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICIR)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Tiled Multicore Processors

    • Michael B. Taylor, Walter Lee, Jason E. Miller, David Wentzlaff, Ian Bratt, Ben Greenwald et al.
    Pages 1-33
  3. On-Chip Networks for Multicore Systems

    • Li-Shiuan Peh, Stephen W. Keckler, Sriram Vangal
    Pages 35-71
  4. Composable Multicore Chips

    • Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Simha Sethumadhavan
    Pages 73-109
  5. Speculatively Multithreaded Architectures

    • Gurindar S. Sohi, T. N. Vijaykumar
    Pages 111-143
  6. Optimizing Memory Transactions for Multicore Systems

    • Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Christos Kozyrakis, Bratin Saha
    Pages 145-172
  7. General-Purpose Multi-core Processors

    • Chuck Moore, Pat Conway
    Pages 173-203
  8. Throughput-Oriented Multicore Processors

    • James Laudon, Robert Golla, Greg Grohoski
    Pages 205-230
  9. Stream Processors

    • Mattan Erez, William J. Dally
    Pages 231-270
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 1-4

About this book

Multicore Processors and Systems provides a comprehensive overview of emerging multicore processors and systems. It covers technology trends affecting multicores, multicore architecture innovations, multicore software innovations, and case studies of state-of-the-art commercial multicore systems. A cross-cutting theme of the book is the challenges associated with scaling up multicore systems to hundreds of cores.

The book provides an overview of significant developments in the architectures for multicore processors and systems. It includes chapters on fundamental requirements for multicore systems, including processing, memory systems, and interconnect. It also includes several case studies on commercial multicore systems that have recently been developed and deployed across multiple application domains. The architecture chapters focus on innovative multicore execution models as well as infrastructure for multicores, including memory systems and on-chip interconnections. The case studies examine multicore implementations across different application domains, including general purpose, server, media/broadband, network processing, and signal processing.

Multicore Processors and Systems is the first book that focuses solely on multicore processors and systems, and in particular on the unique technology implications, architectures, and implementations. The book has contributing authors that are from both the academic and industrial communities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, U.S.A.

    Stephen W. Keckler

  • Dept. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.

    Kunle Olukotun

  • IBM Software Group, Austin, U.S.A.

    H. Peter Hofstee

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multicore Processors and Systems

  • Editors: Stephen W. Keckler, Kunle Olukotun, H. Peter Hofstee

  • Series Title: Integrated Circuits and Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0263-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0262-7Published: 15 September 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2450-5Published: 03 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0263-4Published: 29 August 2009

  • Series ISSN: 1558-9412

  • Series E-ISSN: 1558-9420

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 301

  • Topics: Processor Architectures, Circuits and Systems, Electrical Engineering

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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