Programming Many-Core Chips

• Main Author: Vajda, András (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer-aided engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.

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, mi...

Table of Contents:

• 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.