This book outlines a set of issues that are critical to all of parallel architecture--communication latency, communication bandwidth, and coordination of cooper
Teaching fundamental design concepts and the challenges of emerging technology, this textbook prepares students for a career designing the computer systems of t
Since the publication of the first edition, parallel computing technology has gained considerable momentum. A large proportion of this has come from the improve
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