Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods (Optimization and Neural Computation) - Softcover

Bertsekas, Dimitri P.; Tsitsiklis, John N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886529019 ISBN 13: 9781886529014

Publisher: Athena Scientific, 1997

Synopsis

This highly acclaimed work, first published by Prentice Hall in 1989, is a comprehensive and theoretically sound treatment of parallel and distributed numerical methods. It focuses on algorithms that are naturally suited for massive parallelization, and it explores the fundamental convergence, rate of convergence, communication, and synchronization issues associated with such algorithms. This is an extensive book, which aside from its focus on parallel and distributed algorithms, contains a wealth of material on a broad variety of computation and optimization topics. Among its special features, the book: 1) Quantifies the performance of parallel algorithms, including the limitations imposed by the communication and synchronization penalties. 2) Describes communication algorithms for a variety of system architectures including tree, mesh, and hypercube. 3) Provides a comprehensive convergence analysis of asynchronous methods and a comparison with their asynchronous counterparts. 4) Cove

Edition details

• Publisher: Athena Scientific
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1886529019
• ISBN 13: 9781886529014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 715