Overview
- Offers a comprehensive survey of shared-memory synchronization, with an emphasis on “systems-level” issues
- Includes sufficient coverage of architectural details to understand correctness and performance on modern multicores
- Enables programmers to understand how synchronization is embedded in modern programming languages
Part of the book series: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture (SLCA)
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The primary intended audience for this book is “systems programmers”—the authors of operating systems, library packages, language run-time systems, concurrent data structures, and server and utility programs. Much of the discussion should also be of interest to application programmers who want to make good use of the synchronization mechanisms available to them, and to computer architects who want to understand the ramifications of their design decisions on systems-level code.
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About the authors
Trevor Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Faith Ellen at the University of Toronto in 2017, and conducted postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria, and the Technion, Israel. His research straddles theory and practice, and focuses on the question of how large scale multicore systems can be programmed easily, efficiently and correctly. His specific research interests include concurrent data structures, lock-free synchronization, memory management, transactional memory, and non-volatile memory. At the University of Toronto, he won the Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance in 2014. He has served multiple times on the Program Committees of ICDCS, PODC, PPoPP, SIROCCO, and SPAA, and was Publication Chair for PPoPP'19. He received the Best Paper Award at PPoPP'20, Best Artifact Awards at PPoPP'21 and PPoPP'22, and Finalist status in the Best Paper competitions at PPoPP'21 and SPAA'22.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shared-Memory Synchronization
Authors: Michael L. Scott, Trevor Brown
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38684-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38683-1Published: 31 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38686-2Due: 13 February 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38684-8Published: 30 January 2024
Series ISSN: 1935-3235
Series E-ISSN: 1935-3243
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 243
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Processor Architectures, Circuits and Systems, Computer Hardware