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The art of multiprocessor programming / Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco, Calif. : Morgan Kaufmann ; Oxford : Elsevier Science [distributor], 2008.Description: 616 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780123705914 (pbk.) :
  • 9780123705914 (Paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 005.434 HER
LOC classification:
  • QA76.6
Contents:
1.Introduction -- I.Principles -- 2.Mutual exclusion -- 3.Concurrent objects -- 4.Foundations of shared memory -- 5.The relative power of primitive synchronization operations -- II.Practice -- 7.Spin locks and contention -- 8.Monitors and blocking synchronization -- 9.Linked lists: the role of locking -- 10.Concurrent queues and the ABA problem -- 11.Concurrent stacks and elimination -- 12.Couting, sorting, and distributed coordination -- 13.Concurrent hashing and natural parallelism -- 14.Skiplists and balanced search -- 15.Priority queues -- 16.Futures, scheduling, and work distribution -- -- 17.Barriers -- 18.Transactional memory -- III.Appendix -- A.Software basics -- B.Hardware basics.
Summary: Multiprocessor programming, also known as multicore programming, requires new principles, algorithms, and programming tools. This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the principles and tools available for programming multiprocessor machines. It will be of immediate use to programmers working with the new architectures.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 005.434 HER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209769

1.Introduction -- I.Principles -- 2.Mutual exclusion -- 3.Concurrent objects -- 4.Foundations of shared memory -- 5.The relative power of primitive synchronization operations -- II.Practice -- 7.Spin locks and contention -- 8.Monitors and blocking synchronization -- 9.Linked lists: the role of locking -- 10.Concurrent queues and the ABA problem -- 11.Concurrent stacks and elimination -- 12.Couting, sorting, and distributed coordination -- 13.Concurrent hashing and natural parallelism -- 14.Skiplists and balanced search -- 15.Priority queues -- 16.Futures, scheduling, and work distribution -- -- 17.Barriers -- 18.Transactional memory -- III.Appendix -- A.Software basics -- B.Hardware basics.

Multiprocessor programming, also known as multicore programming, requires new principles, algorithms, and programming tools. This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the principles and tools available for programming multiprocessor machines. It will be of immediate use to programmers working with the new architectures.

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