Chapter 8 Parallel Computer Architectures

8.1 On-Chip Parallelism

8.1.1 Instruction-Level Parallelism

8.1.2 On-Chip Multithreading

8.1.3 Single-Chip Multiprocessors

8.2 Coprocessors

8.2.1 Network Processors

8.2.2 Media Processors

8.2.3 Crytoprocessors

8.3 Shared-Memory Multiprocessors

8.3.1 Multiprocessors vs. Multicomputers

8.3.2 Memory Semantics

8.3.3 UMA Symmetric Multiprocessor Architectures

8.3.4 NUMA Multiprocessors

8.3.5 COMA Multiprocessors

8.4 Message-Passing Multicomputers

8.4.1 Interconnection Networks

8.4.2 MPPs – Massively Parallel Processors

8.4.3 Cluster Computer

8.4.4 Communication Software for Multicomputers

8.4.5 Scheduling

8.4.6 Application-Level Shared Memory

8.4.7 Performance

8.5 Grid Computing

8.6 Summary