Module 2: "Parallel Computer Architecture: Today and Tomorrow"
  Lecture 4: "Shared Memory Multiprocessors"
 

The Lecture Contains:

Technology trends

Architectural trends

Exploiting TLP: NOW

Supercomputers

Exploiting TLP: Shared memory

Shared memory MPs

Bus-based MPs

Scaling: DSMs

On-chip TLP

Economics

Summary

[From Chapter 1 of Culler, Singh, Gupta]