Herlihy, Maurice. <br/><br/>
The art of multiprocessor programming / 
Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit. 
 - Amsterdam ;  London :  Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann,  2008. 
 - xx, 508 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Principles. Mutual exclusion ; Concurrent objects ; Foundations of shared memory ; The relative power of primitive synchronization operations ; Universality of consensus -- Practice. Spin locks and contention ; Monitors and blocking synchronization ; Linked lists : the role of locking ; Concurrent queues and the ABA problem ; Concurrent stacks and elimination ; Counting, sorting, and distributed coordination ; Concurrent hashing and natural parallelism ; Skiplists and balanced search ; Priority queues ; Futures, scheduling, and work distribution ; Barriers ; Transactional memory -- Appendix. Software basics ; Hardware basics. 
<br/><br/> Multiprocessor programming, also known as multicore programming, requires new principles, algorithms, and programming tools. This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the principles and tools available for programming multiprocessor machines. It will be of immediate use to programmers working with the new architectures. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780123705914 (pbk.) 0123705916 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008273906 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Multiprogramming (Electronic computers)<br/>Multiprocessors.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA76.6  / .H5244 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>005.434