1.increase throughput
2.Economy of scale
3. Increased reliability
Daniel Sladic has written: 'Exploiting low-latency communication in single-chip multiprocessors'
Keith I. Farkas has written: 'A decentralized hierarchical cache-consistency scheme for shared-memory multiprocessors'
G. Gupta has written: 'Multiprocessor execution of logic programs' -- subject(s): Logic programming, Multiprocessors
Clyde P. Kruskal has written: 'Efficient synchronization on multiprocessors with shared memory' -- subject(s): Accessible book
Pin-Yee Chen has written: 'Multiprocessor systems' -- subject(s): Memory hierarchy (Computer science), Multiprocessors
Chae Young Shin has written: 'A comparison of task scheduling algorithms on multicomputers' -- subject(s): Multiprocessors, Algorithms
Erhard Rahm has written: 'Synchronisation in Mehrrechner-Datenbanksystemen' -- subject(s): Multiprocessors, Database management 'Data Integration in the Life Sciences'
Steven R. Seidel has written: 'Global synchronization algorithms for the Intel iPSC/860' -- subject(s): Multiprocessors, Synchronization
Charles Tong has written: 'Ordered fast Fourier transforms on a massively parallel hypercube multiprocessor' -- subject- s -: Fourier transformations, Multiprocessors
Patricia J. Teller has written: 'TLB consistency on highly-parallel shared-memory multiprocessors' -- subject(s): Accessible book
Gwang-Myung Kim has written: 'Architectural support for multithreading on a 4-way multiprocessor' -- subject(s): Parallel processing (Electronic computers), Multiprocessors
Multiprocessors have a single physical address space (memory) shared by all the CPUs whereas multicomputers have one physical address space per CPU Multiprocessors have a single physical address space (memory) shared by all the CPUs whereas multicomputers have one physical address space per CPU