Multicore Resources

The following sources can be consulted for general information about mulitcore hardware and software.

Hardware

• Intel Multi-core White Paper
• AMD multi-core White Paper
• IBM Cell Processor

Programming Issues

• The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software, By Herb Sutter

pthreads

• Programming with POSIX Threads, by David R. Butenhof (ISBN 0-201-63392-2)
• Pthread Tutorial

OpenMP

• Parallel Programming in OpenMP, by Rohit Chandra, Ramesh Menon, Leo Dagum, David Kohr, Dror Maydan, Jeff McDonald (ISBN: 1558606718)
• Nuts and bolts of Multithreaded Programming by Tim Mattson
• OpenMP Website

MPI

• Using MPI – 2nd Edition: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message Passing Interface by William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Anthony Skjellum (ISBN: 0262571323)
• MPI Web site