Introduction to Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing

Single processor supercomputers have achieved unheard of speeds and have been pushing hardware technology to the physical limit of chip manufacturing. But there is limit to the computational power that can be achieved with a single processor system. In this chapter, we provide an introduction to the...

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Published in:	Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing pp. 1 - 18
Main Authors:	El‐Rewini, Hesham, Abd‐El‐Barr, Mostafa
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken, NJ, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 17.12.2004
Series:	Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Subjects:	advanced computer systems dynamic networks message‐passing computing model MIMD architectures multiprocessing interconnection networks parallel processing performance characteristics of interconnection networks shared‐memory computing model SIMD architectures static networks
ISBN:	9780471467403, 0471467405
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