Multicore Processors and Systems

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.

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

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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. Cross-cutting themes of the book are the challenges associated with scaling up multicore systems to hundreds of cores. The architecture chapters focus on innovative multicore execution models as well as infrastructure for multicores, including memory systems, on-chip interconnections, and programming models. The case studies examine multicore implementations across different application domains, including general purpose, server, media/broadband, and signal processing. The authors of the chapters include leaders in the research of multicore architectures as well as designers responsible for the implementation of commercial multicore systems.

Researchers and practitioners will appreciate the projection of technology trends and its expected impact on multicore system design. The case studies throughout the book serve to provide insight into different approaches of designing multicore systems that will give the reader benefit of first-hand experience from the original innovators. Because of its emphasis on both fundamentals and on case studies, this book can serve as a primary textbook for an advanced course in parallel and multicore system design.

Inhalt
Tiled Multicore Processors.- On-Chip Networks for Multicore Systems.- Composable Multicore Chips.- Speculatively Multithreaded Architectures.- Optimizing Memory Transactions for Multicore Systems.- General-Purpose Multi-core Processors.- Throughput-Oriented Multicore Processors.- Stream Processors.- Heterogeneous Multi-core Processors: The Cell Broadband Engine.