Publisher’s description: The era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favour of multi-core microprocessors – chips that combine two or more processors in a single package.
In the fourth edition of this book, the authors focus on this historic shift, increasing their coverage of multiprocessors and exploring the most effective ways of achieving parallelism as the key to unlocking the power of multiple processor architectures. Additionally, the new edition has expanded and updated coverage of design topics beyond processor performance, including power, reliability, availability, and dependability.
See the reviews of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd edition in Zbl 0752.68014, Zbl 0844.68003 and Zbl 1003.68001, respectively.