Lecture note Computer Organization - Part 5: Parallel organization

The final part of the book looks at the increasingly important area of parallel orga- nization. In a parallel organization, multiple processing units cooperate to execute applications. Whereas a superscalar processor exploits opportunities for parallel ex- ecution at the instruction level, a parallel processing organization looks for a grosser level of parallelism, one that enables work to be done in parallel, and cooperatively, by multiple processors.