The world of computing is in rapid transition, now dominated by a world of smartphones and
cloud services, with profound implications for the future of advanced scientific computing …

Wormhole routing has emerged as the most widely used switching technique in massively
parallel computers. We present a detailed survey of various techniques for enhancing the …

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Fifth Edition, explores the ways that
software and technology in the cloud are accessed by digital media, such as cell phones …

Memory disaggregation promises transparent elasticity, high resource utilization and
hardware heterogeneity in data centers by physically separating memory and compute into …

One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the
communication and interconnection between system components. Interconnection networks …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

The performance of most digital systems today is limited by their communication or
interconnection, not by their logic or memory. As designers strive to make more efficient use …

The efficiency of distributed shared memory (DSM) has been greatly improved by recent
hardware technologies. But, the difficulty of distributed memory management can still be a …

A vast body of theoretical research has focused either on overly simplistic models of parallel
computation, notably the PRAM, or overly specific models that have few representatives in …

The most exciting development in parallel computer architecture is the convergence of
traditionally disparate approaches on a common machine structure. This book explains the …