Programming Many-Core Chips [Paperback]

This book presents new concepts, techniques and promising programming models for designing software for chips with many (hundreds to thousands) processor cores. Given the scale of parallelism inherent to these chips, software designers face new challenges in terms of operating systems, middleware and applications. This will serve as an invaluable, single-source reference to the state-of-the-art in programming many-core chips. Coverage includes many-core architectures, operating systems, middleware, and programming models.

This book presents new concepts, techniques and promising programming models for designing software for chips with many (hundreds to thousands) processor cores. It serves as a single-source reference to the state-of-the-art in programming many-core chips.

Introduction.- Multi-core and Many-core Processor Architectures.- State of the Art Multi-core Operating Systems.- The Fundamental Laws of Parallelism.- Fundamentals of Parallel Programming.- Debugging and Performance Analysis of Many-core Programs.- Many-core Virtualization and Operating Systems.- Introduction to Programming Models.- Practical Many-core Programming.- Looking Ahead.- Index.

Based on current technology trends, in the near future programmers will have to program chips with hundreds or even thousands of processor cores (called many-core chips).? Given the scale of parallelism inherent to these chips, software designers face new challenges in terms of operating systems, middleware and applications.? This book will serve as an invaluable, single-source reference to the state-of-the-art in the research and practical programming of many-core chips. It presents new concepts, techniques and programming models for dealing with the challenges posed by many-core chips. Coverage includes many-core hardware architectures, present and future operating systems design, middleware design, and the most promising programming models.
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