By
Maurice Herlihy, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Maurice Herlihy, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Nir Shavit, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Nir Shavit, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Description
As the computer industry changes from single-processor to multiprocessor architectures, this revolution requires a fundamental change
in how programs are written. To leverage the performance and power of multiprocessor programming, also known as multicore programming,
you need to learn the new principles, algorithms, and tools presented in this book. It includes fully-developed Java examples detailing
data structures, synchronization techniques, transactional memory, and more.
Prof. Maurice Herlihy, who coined the phrase "transactional
memory," 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
Gödel Prize, the highest award in theoretical computer science.
Audience:
Students in multiprocessor and multicore programming courses and engineers working with multiprocessor and multicore systems.
