Parallel Processing, 1980 to 2020 / by Robert Kuhn, David Padua.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuhn, Robert., Author.

Padua, David., Author.

Series:

Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, 1935-3243

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic circuits.

Microprocessors.

Computer architecture.

Electronic Circuits and Systems.

Processor Architectures.

Local Subjects:

Electronic Circuits and Systems.

Processor Architectures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXIII, 166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

Summary:

This historical survey of parallel processing from 1980 to 2020 is a follow-up to the authors’ 1981 Tutorial on Parallel Processing, which covered the state of the art in hardware, programming languages, and applications. Here, we cover the evolution of the field since 1980 in: parallel computers, ranging from the Cyber 205 to clusters now approaching an exaflop, to multicore microprocessors, and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) in commodity personal devices; parallel programming notations such as OpenMP, MPI message passing, and CUDA streaming notation; and seven parallel applications, such as finite element analysis and computer vision. Some things that looked like they would be major trends in 1981, such as big Single Instruction Multiple Data arrays disappeared for some time but have been revived recently in deep neural network processors. There are now major trends that did not exist in 1980, such as GPUs, distributed memory machines, and parallel processing in nearly every commodity device. This book is intended for those that already have some knowledge of parallel processing today and want to learn about the history of the three areas. In parallel hardware, every major parallel architecture type from 1980 has scaled-up in performance and scaled-out into commodity microprocessors and GPUs, so that every personal and embedded device is a parallel processor. There has been a confluence of parallel architecture types into hybrid parallel systems. Much of the impetus for change has been Moore’s Law, but as clock speed increases have stopped and feature size decreases have slowed down, there has been increased demand on parallel processing to continue performance gains. In programming notations and compilers, we observe that the roots of today’s programming notations existed before 1980. And that, through a great deal of research, the most widely used programming notations today, although the result of much broadening of these roots, remain close to target system architectures allowing the programmer to almost explicitly use the target’s parallelism to the best of their ability. The parallel versions of applications directly or indirectly impact nearly everyone, computer expert or not, and parallelism has brought about major breakthroughs in numerous application areas. Seven parallel applications are studied in this book.

Contents:

Foreword by David Kuck

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Parallel Hardware

Programming Notations and Compilers

Applications

Parallel Hardware Today and Tomorrow

Concluding Remarks

Appendix A: Myths and Misconceptions about Parallelism

Appendix B: Bibliographic Notes

Appendix C: Taxonomic Notes

Appendix D: The 1981 Tutorial

References

Authors'Biographies .

ISBN:

9783031017681

3031017684