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Multiprocessors, Multicomputers & Distributed Systems
What changes when one CPU becomes many cores, many boxes, and finally many machines that can each fail on their own. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 17 minutes in all.
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In this chapter
- Beyond one CPU: the landscape
- Multiprocessors: SMP and one OS across many cores
- Cache coherence & memory consistency
- NUMA: when not all memory is equally close
- Multicomputers & message passing
- Distributed systems: the shift and its defining difficulty
- Hard problems: ordering, consensus & CAP
- Why engineers care: the same themes, one box to a datacenter
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