Chapter 7 Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters.pptVIP

Chapter 7 — Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Chapter 7 — Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters Chapter 7 Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters Introduction Goal: connecting multiple computersto get higher performance Multiprocessors Scalability, availability, power efficiency Job-level (process-level) parallelism High throughput for independent jobs Parallel processing program Single program run on multiple processors Multicore microprocessors Chips with multiple processors (cores) Hardware and Software Hardware Serial: e.g., Pentium 4 Parallel: e.g