Contents: Preface; Introduction; Tiny Fortran; Hardware and Operating System Models; Processes, Shared Memory and Simple Parallel Programs; Basic Parallel Programming Techniques; Barriers and Race Conditions; Introduction to Scheduling-Nested Loops; Overcoming Data Dependencies; Scheduling Summary; Linear Recurrence Relations--Backward Dependencies; Performance Tuning; Discrete Event, Discrete Time Simulation; Some Applications; Semaphores and Events; Programming Project. Appendixes. Index. This is the first practical guide to parallel programming written for the applications programmer with no experience in parallel programming and no formal computer science training.

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