A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition

by Daniel J. Sorin, Vijay Nagarajan, Mark D. Hill

Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, support shared memory in hardware. In a shared memory system, each of the processor cores may read and write to a single shared address space. For a shared memory machine, the memory consistency model defines the architecturally visible behavior of its memory system. Consistency definitions provide rules about loads and stores (or memory reads and writes) and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031006364
• ISBN13: 9783031006364
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"