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Practical parallel computing

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : AP Professional, c1994Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 401 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 012508160X
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Contents:
1- The status and future of massively parallel processing 2- Can parallel machines be used efficiently? 3- An introduction to hardware architectures 4- Shared memory parallel language constructs 5- Message passing 6- SIMD and array-based languages 7- Linda 8- The development environment for parallel software 9- Operating system issues 10- Benchmarking parallel applications 11- Porting and developing parallel applications 12- Matching applications to architectures -- App. A: The sample problem -- App. B: SGI challenge -- App. C: nCube -- App. D: Express -- App. E: Intel Paragon -- App. F: MasPar MP-1 -- App. G: C on the connection Machine -- app. H: Linda -- App. I: Two recent machines.
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1- The status and future of massively parallel processing 2- Can parallel machines be used efficiently? 3- An introduction to hardware architectures 4- Shared memory parallel language constructs 5- Message passing 6- SIMD and array-based languages 7- Linda 8- The development environment for parallel software 9- Operating system issues 10- Benchmarking parallel applications 11- Porting and developing parallel applications 12- Matching applications to architectures -- App. A: The sample problem -- App. B: SGI challenge -- App. C: nCube -- App. D: Express -- App. E: Intel Paragon -- App. F: MasPar MP-1 -- App. G: C on the connection Machine -- app. H: Linda -- App. I: Two recent machines.

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