"This book ... uniquely synthesizes Professor Milutinovi 's thinking on the important issues in computer architecture ... The result is a necessarily somewhat eclectic, personal statement by one of the leaders of the field." --Michael J. Flynn, Stanford University From the Foreword "How do we invest one billion transistors on a single chip?" asks Veljko Milutinovi as he ponders the ultimate goal of an entire distributed shared memory (DSM)--plus numerous...