Students of advanced architecture need to read this book released in Jan this year. The massively parallel processor architecture that this book talks about is implemented in silicon by the CUDA architecture of the NVIDIA. This book, the "Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach " launched on Jan 28, 2010. This is written by Dr. David B. Kirk, NVIDIA Fellow and former chief scientist, and Dr. Wen-mei Hwu, who serves at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, co-director of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center and principal investigator of the CUDA Center of Excellence. A joint effort by the academia and the industry.
Visit the Microsite for more details. the site also has commentary by authors about the book. The book is available to purchase directly from Elsevier or Amazon.
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