We thank Todd Green, Charlotte Kent, Priya Kumaraguruparan, and Kaitlin Herbert from Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, and Bob Whitecotton, Phil Rogers, and Manju Hegde from AMD for their support of and effort on this project.

We also thank Jack Chung, Wen-Mei Hwu, Yun-Wei Lee, and Ray Sung from Multicoreware, and Lifan Xu, Mikaël Bourges-Sévenier, and Rémi Arnaud, for their significant contributions to individual chapters.

We acknowledge Lee Howes for his thorough and thoughtful editing and reviewing of early drafts of this text, and we thank both Lee and Ben Gaster for their contributions to previous editions of the book.