The Electrical Engineering Handbook

2

Multiprocessors

Peter Y.K. Cheung, George A. Constantinides and Wayne Luk,     Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, UK

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Architecture of Multiprocessor Systems

2.2.1. Symmetric Multiprocessors

2.2.2. Cache Coherent Nonuniform Memory Access

2.3. Cache Coherence

2.3.1. Snoopy Protocols and MESI

2.3.2. Directory-Based Protocols

2.4. Software Development and Tools

2.4.1. Operating Systems

2.4.2. Software Development Methods

2.4.3. Software Development: The BSP Approach

2.4.4. Performance Tools

2.5. Recent Advances

2.6. Summary

References

2.1 Introduction

As both the cost and performance of microprocessors continue to improve, ...