Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

The technology discussed in this book might be out-of-date but the framework that the authors use to design the system is worth learning. This book does require a good understanding on computer architecture. So it might not be suitable for you if you just start to learn this subject.

Encyclopedic in scope and theory. Might be supplemented with more practical texts detailingcontemporary processors and code for Matlab/Simulink tools. Don't drop it on your toe!

Content of the book is fantastic. However, the book itself is missing 33 important pages (355-386).

I guest lecture in a graduate level architecture course, and I always enjoy using this book as reference material when I want to lecture on cache coherency. This book is written from the correct perspective that obtaining parallelism is not easy, and so most of the book is spent on the various issues that come up when building a parallel machine. It is probably a good idea to read this book if you want to write parallel code, or if you just want to know why large scale supercomputers are not in wide use today.Previous uniprocessor architecture knowledge is required for the more interesting chapters. Thus, this book acts as a nice sequel to Henessey and Patterson.

The book repeats lots of things. Its not well written. Don't buy this book. You will fall sick reading this in a few days.

Good read. Some highly technical stuff that is explained well. Despite some of the architectures under discussion being old, the fundamentals are informative and worth reading. Good low-level information and a logical progression of concepts building on one-another.

Je suis déçu d'avoir reçu le livre aujourd'hui. La qualité de papier et image est une qualité photocopie, qui n'est pas génial non plus.Par contre, le contenu est toujours utile pour quelqu'un dans le domaine.