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The primary goal of this chapter is to introduce the background and historical reasons that led to the emergence of multi-core chips. We look at some of the most important challenges—power constraints, memory latency and memory bandwidth issues—that accompanied the development of computing environments during the past two decades. Within this context we introduce the purpose and the content of this book: a survey of the state of the art of practice and research into programming chips with tens to hundreds of cores. The chapter is concluded with the outline of the rest of the book.
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Vajda, A. (2011). Introduction. In: Programming Many-Core Chips. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9739-5_1
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