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| THE ART OF MULTIPROCESSOR PROGRAMMING
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By
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Nir Shavit, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Description
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the principles and tools available for programming multiprocessor machines. It is
of immediate use to programmers working with the new architectures. For example, the next generation of computer game consoles will all
be multiprocessor-based, and the game industry is currently struggling to understand how to address the programming challenges presented
by these machines.
This change in the industry is so fundamental that it is certain to require a significant response by universities,
and courses on multicore programming will become a staple of computer science curriculums.
The authors are well known and respected in
this community and both teach and conduct research in this area. Prof. Maurice Herlihy is on the faculty of Brown University. He is the
recipient of the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in distributed computing. Prof. Nir Shavit is on the faculty of Tel-Aviv University and a member
of the technical staff at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. In 2004 they shared the G del Prize, the highest award in theoretical computer
science.
Audience
Students in multiprocessor and multicore programming courses and engineers working with multiprocessor and multicore systems.
Contents
1 Introduction; 2 Mutual Exclusion; 3 Concurrent Objects and Linearization; 4 Foundations of Shared Memory; 5 The Relative Power of Synchronization
Methods; 6 The Universality of Consensus; 7 Spin Locks and Contention; 8 Monitors and Blocking Sychronization; 9 Linked Lists: the Role
of Locking; 10 Concurrent Queues and the ABA Problem; 11 Concurrent Stakcs and Elimination; 12 Counting, Sorting and Distributed Coordinatino;
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; Appendices
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 528 pages, publication date: FEB-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370591-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-370591-6
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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