The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Second Edition provides users with an authoritative guide to multicore programming. This updated edition introduces a higher level set of software development skills than that needed for efficient single-core programming, and includes comprehensive coverage of the new principles, algorithms, and tools necessary for effective multiprocessor programming. It is an ideal resource for students and professionals alike who will benefit from its thorough coverage of key multiprocessor programming issues.

• Features new exercises developed for instructors using the text, with more algorithms, new examples and other updates throughout the book
• Presents the fundamentals of programming multiple threads accessing shared memory
• Explores mainstream concurrent data structures and the key elements of their design, as well as synchronization techniques from simple locks to transactional memory systems

Students in multiprocessor and multicore programming courses and engineers working with multiprocessor and multicore systems

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 Synchronization
9. Linked Lists: The Role of Locking
10. Concurrent Queues and the ABA Problem
11. Concurrent Stacks and Elimination
12. Counting, 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