Unix Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers - Softcover

Schimmel, Curt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201633388 ISBN 13: 9780201633382

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994

Synopsis

Any UNIX programmer using the latest workstations or super minicomputers from vendors such as Sun, Silicon Graphics (SGI), AT&T, Amdahl, IBM, Apple, Compaq, Mentor Graphics, and Thinking Machines needs this book to optimize his/her job performance. This book teaches how these architectures operate using clear, comprehensible examples to explain the concepts, and provides a good reference for people already familiar with the basic concepts.

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From the Inside Flap

The goal of this book is to provide practical information on the issues operating systems must address in order to run on modern computer systems that employ cache memories and/or multiprocessors. At the time of this writing, a number of books describe UNIX system implementations, but none describes in detail how caches and multiprocessors should be managed. Many computer architecture books describe caches and multiprocessors from...

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From the Back Cover

This book represents a significant new milestone in UNIX kernel internals books. Symmetric multiprocessing and cache memory systems are important cost-effective technologies for improving performance in today's state-of-the-art systems.

Written for the UNIX kernel developer, this book provides a complete yet comprehensible explanation of the operation of caches and symmetric multiprocessors, how they work together, and the issues operating systems must address in order to run...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0201633388
• ISBN 13: 9780201633382
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432