Download or read book A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence written by Vijay Nagarajan and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, support shared memory in hardware. In a shared memory system, each of the processor cores may read and write to a single shared address space. For a shared memory machine, the memory consistency model defines the architecturally visible behavior of its memory system. Consistency definitions provide rules about loads and stores (or memory reads and writes) and how they act upon memory. As part of supporting a memory consistency model, many machines also provide cache coherence protocols that ensure that multiple cached copies of data are kept up-to-date. The goal of this primer is to provide readers with a basic understanding of consistency and coherence. This understanding includes both the issues that must be solved as well as a variety of solutions. We present both high-level concepts as well as specific, concrete examples from real-world systems. This second edition reflects a decade of advancements since the first edition and includes, among other more modest changes, two new chapters: one on consistency and coherence for non-CPU accelerators (with a focus on GPUs) and one that points to formal work and tools on consistency and coherence.

Download or read book Multi Core Cache Hierarchies written by Rajeev Balasubramonian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key determinant of overall system performance and power dissipation is the cache hierarchy since access to off-chip memory consumes many more cycles and energy than on-chip accesses. In addition, multi-core processors are expected to place ever higher bandwidth demands on the memory system. All these issues make it important to avoid off-chip memory access by improving the efficiency of the on-chip cache. Future multi-core processors will have many large cache banks connected by a network and shared by many cores. Hence, many important problems must be solved: cache resources must be allocated across many cores, data must be placed in cache banks that are near the accessing core, and the most important data must be identified for retention. Finally, difficulties in scaling existing technologies require adapting to and exploiting new technology constraints. The book attempts a synthesis of recent cache research that has focused on innovations for multi-core processors. It is an excellent starting point for early-stage graduate students, researchers, and practitioners who wish to understand the landscape of recent cache research. The book is suitable as a reference for advanced computer architecture classes as well as for experienced researchers and VLSI engineers. Table of Contents: Basic Elements of Large Cache Design / Organizing Data in CMP Last Level Caches / Policies Impacting Cache Hit Rates / Interconnection Networks within Large Caches / Technology / Concluding Remarks

Download or read book Architecture of Computing Systems ARCS 2017 written by Jens Knoop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2017. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections entitled: resilience; accelerators; performance; memory systems; parallelism and many-core; scheduling; power/energy.

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Download or read book Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing written by Narayan Desai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th and 20th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2015 and 2016, held respectively in Hyderabad, India, on May 26, 2015 and in Chicago, IL, USA, on May 27, 2016. The 14 revised full papers presented (7 papers in 2015 and 7 papers in 2016) were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions (14 in 2015 and 14 in 2016). The papers cover the following topics: parallel scheduling raising challenges multiple levels of abstractions; node level parallelism; minimization of energy consumption in task migration within a many-core chip; task replication in real-time scheduling context; data-driven approach to schedule GPU load; the use of lock-free data structures in OS scheduler; the influence between user behaviour (think time, more precisely) and parallel scheduling; Evalix, a predictor for job resource consumption; sophisticated and realistic simulation; space-filling curves leading to better scheduling of large-scale computers; discussion of real-life production experiences.

Download or read book Programming Multicore and Many core Computing Systems written by Sabri Pllana and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming multi-core and many-core computing systems Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Provides state-of-the-art methods for programming multi-core and many-core systems The book comprises a selection of twenty two chapters covering: fundamental techniques and algorithms; programming approaches; methodologies and frameworks; scheduling and management; testing and evaluation methodologies; and case studies for programming multi-core and many-core systems. Program development for multi-core processors, especially for heterogeneous multi-core processors, is significantly more complex than for single-core processors. However, programmers have been traditionally trained for the development of sequential programs, and only a small percentage of them have experience with parallel programming. In the past, only a relatively small group of programmers interested in High Performance Computing (HPC) was concerned with the parallel programming issues, but the situation has changed dramatically with the appearance of multi-core processors on commonly used computing systems. It is expected that with the pervasiveness of multi-core processors, parallel programming will become mainstream. The pervasiveness of multi-core processors affects a large spectrum of systems, from embedded and general-purpose, to high-end computing systems. This book assists programmers in mastering the efficient programming of multi-core systems, which is of paramount importance for the software-intensive industry towards a more effective product-development cycle. Key features: Lessons, challenges, and roadmaps ahead. Contains real world examples and case studies. Helps programmers in mastering the efficient programming of multi-core and many-core systems. The book serves as a reference for a larger audience of practitioners, young researchers and graduate level students. A basic level of programming knowledge is required to use this book.

Download or read book Programming Many Core Chips written by András Vajda and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Next Generation Systems and Networks written by Hari Om Bansal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Next Generation Systems and Networks (BITS EEE CON 2022), held at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, during November 4–5, 2022. This book provides reliable and efficient design solutions for the next-generation networks and systems. The book covers research areas in energy, power and control; communication and signal processing; and electronics and nanotechnology.

Download or read book Cache and Memory Hierarchy Design written by Steven A. Przybylski and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widely read and authoritative book for hardware and software designers. This innovative book exposes the characteristics of performance-optimal single- and multi-level cache hierarchies by approaching the cache design process through the novel perspective of minimizing execution time.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 4th Many Core Applications Research Community MARC Symposium written by Peter Tröger and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2012 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In continuation of a successful series of events, the 4th Many-core Applications Research Community (MARC) symposium took place at the HPI in Potsdam on December 8th and 9th 2011. Over 60 researchers from different fields presented their work on many-core hardware architectures, their programming models, and the resulting research questions for the upcoming generation of heterogeneous parallel systems.

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Download or read book Multi Processor System on Chip 1 written by Liliana Andrade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) is the key component for complex applications. These applications put huge pressure on memory, communication devices and computing units. This book, presented in two volumes – Architectures and Applications – therefore celebrates the 20th anniversary of MPSoC, an interdisciplinary forum that focuses on multi-core and multi-processor hardware and software systems. It is this interdisciplinarity which has led to MPSoC bringing together experts in these fields from around the world, over the last two decades. Multi-Processor System-on-Chip 1 covers the key components of MPSoC: processors, memory, interconnect and interfaces. It describes advance features of these components and technologies to build efficient MPSoC architectures. All the main components are detailed: use of memory and their technology, communication support and consistency, and specific processor architectures for general purposes or for dedicated applications.

Download or read book Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing written by Guojun Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four volume set LNCS 9528, 9529, 9530 and 9531 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2015, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2015. The 219 revised full papers presented together with 77 workshop papers in these four volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 807 submissions (602 full papers and 205 workshop papers). The first volume comprises the following topics: parallel and distributed architectures; distributed and network-based computing and internet of things and cyber-physical-social computing. The second volume comprises topics such as big data and its applications and parallel and distributed algorithms. The topics of the third volume are: applications of parallel and distributed computing and service dependability and security in distributed and parallel systems. The covered topics of the fourth volume are: software systems and programming models and performance modeling and evaluation.

Download or read book Concurrency in C written by Robert Johnson and published by HiTeX Press. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Concurrency in C++: Writing High-Performance Multithreaded Code" is a comprehensive guide designed to equip programmers with the essential skills needed to develop efficient and robust concurrent applications in C++. The book methodically breaks down the complexities of multithreading, providing a foundation in fundamental concepts such as thread management, synchronization techniques, and memory models. Through detailed explanations and practical examples, readers gain a clear understanding of how to effectively manage multiple threads and ensure data integrity across shared resources. As the book delves into advanced topics, it presents design patterns specifically tailored for concurrency, along with strategies for optimizing performance in multithreaded applications. It emphasizes real-world examples, illustrating the practical impact of concurrency across various domains, and offers insights into debugging and testing techniques crucial for maintaining reliable software. With an eye on the future, the book also explores new features introduced in C++20 and future trends in concurrent computing, preparing readers to tackle the challenges of modern and emerging computing environments. Written for both novice and experienced developers, this book provides a comprehensive yet accessible approach to mastering concurrency in C++. Whether you're optimizing existing code or creating new multithreaded solutions, "Concurrency in C++" serves as an indispensable resource on the journey to writing high-performance, scalable applications.

Download or read book Euro Par 2014 Parallel Processing Workshops written by Luís Lopes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes LNCS 8805 and 8806 constitute the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 18 workshops held at the 20th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2014, in Porto, Portugal, in August 2014. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The volumes include papers from the following workshops: APCI&E (First Workshop on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry and Engineering - BigDataCloud (Third Workshop on Big Data Management in Clouds) - DIHC (Second Workshop on Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds) - FedICI (Second Workshop on Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures) - Hetero Par (12th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms) - HiBB (5th Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine) - LSDVE (Second Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P) - MuCoCoS (7th International Workshop on Multi-/Many-core Computing Systems) - OMHI (Third Workshop on On-chip Memory Hierarchies and Interconnects) - PADAPS (Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations) - PROPER (7th Workshop on Productivity and Performance) - Resilience (7th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing with Clusters, Clouds, and Grids) - REPPAR (First International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing) - ROME (Second Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many Core Era) - SPPEXA (Workshop on Software for Exascale Computing) - TASUS (First Workshop on Techniques and Applications for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems) - UCHPC (7th Workshop on Un Conventional High Performance Computing) and VHPC (9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing.

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Download or read book Sequential and Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures written by Peter Sanders and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is a concise introduction to the basic toolbox of structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, key algorithms for problems on graphs, and generic techniques for modeling, understanding, and solving algorithmic problems. The authors aim for a balance between simplicity and efficiency, between theory and practice, and between classical results and the forefront of research. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, optimization, collective communication and computation, and load balancing. The authors also discuss important issues such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries, and certifying algorithms. Moving beyond the sequential algorithms and data structures of the earlier related title, this book takes into account the paradigm shift towards the parallel processing required to solve modern performance-critical applications and how this impacts on the teaching of algorithms. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Most chapters have the same basic structure: the authors discuss a problem as it occurs in a real-life situation, they illustrate the most important applications, and then they introduce simple solutions as informally as possible and as formally as necessary so the reader really understands the issues at hand. As they move to more advanced and optional issues, their approach gradually leads to a more mathematical treatment, including theorems and proofs. The book includes many examples, pictures, informal explanations, and exercises, and the implementation notes introduce clean, efficient implementations in languages such as C++ and Java.