The Importance of Processor Architecture

  • Robert A. Iannucci
Part of the The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science book series (SECS, volume 96)

Abstract

Current-day multiprocessors represent the general belief that processor architecture is of little importance in designing parallel machines. In this Chapter, the fallacy of this assumption will be demonstrated on the basis of the two fundamental issue of latency and synchronization.

Keywords

Parallel Machine Memory Reference Cache Line Program Counter Cache Coherence 
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© Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

Authors and Affiliations

  • Robert A. Iannucci
    • 1
  1. 1.IBM TJ Watson Research CenterUSA

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