Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture

A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence

Many modern computer systems and most multicore chips (chip multiprocessors) s...

The Datacenter as a Computer : An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines

As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of int...

A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence : 2nd Edition

Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architec...

The Memory System : You Can't Avoid It, You Can't Ignore It, You Can't Fake It

Today, computer-system optimization, at both the hardware and software levels,...

Shared-Memory Synchronization

Since the advent of time sharing in the 1960s, designers of concurrent and par...

Processor Microarchitecture : An Implementation Perspective

General Purpose Graphics Processor Architectures

Originally developed to support video games, graphics processor units (GPUs) a...

Multithreading Architecture

Multi-core Cache Hierarchies

Transactional Memory