Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach

David E. Culler, University of California, Berkeley; Jaswinder Pal Singh,
Princeton University; with Anoop Gupta, Stanford University
1100 pages Cloth ISBN 1-55860-343-3 US $89.95 August 1998

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Title Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Parallel Programs
Chapter 3 Programming for Performance
Chapter 4 Workload-driven Evaluation
Chapter 5 Shared Memory Multiprocessors
Chapter 6 Snoop-based Multiprocessor Design
Chapter 7 Scalable Multiprocessors
Chapter 8 Directory-based Cache Coherence
Chapter 9 Hardware-Software Tradeoffs
Chapter 10 Interconnection Network Design
Chapter 11 Latency Tolerance
Chapter 12 Future Directions
Appendix Benchmarks

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