Multicore Processors and Systems provides a comprehensive overview of emerging multicore processors and systems. It covers technology trends affecting multicores, multicore architecture innovations, multicore software innovations, and case studies of state-of-the-art commercial multicore systems. Cross-cutting themes of the book are the challenges associated with scaling up multicore systems to hundreds of cores. The architecture chapters focus on innovative multicore execution models as well as infrastructure for multicores, including memory systems, on-chip interconnections, and programming models. The case studies examine multicore implementations across different application domains, including general purpose, server, media/broadband, and signal processing. The authors of the chapters include leaders in the research of multicore architectures as well as designers responsible for the implementation of commercial multicore systems.

Provides a comprehensive overview of emerging multicore processors and systems

Tiled Multicore Processors.- On-Chip Networks for Multicore Systems.- Composable Multicore Chips.- Speculatively Multithreaded Architectures.- Optimizing Memory Transactions for Multicore Systems.- General-Purpose Multi-core Processors.- Throughput-Oriented Multicore Processors.- Stream Processors.- Heterogeneous Multi-core Processors: The Cell Broadband Engine.