The Characteristics of Parallel Algorithms (MIT Press Series in Scientific Computation)

Jamieson, Leah H.; Gannon, Dennis; Douglass, Robert J. (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0262100363 / ISBN 13: 9780262100366

Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1987

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Paperboard cover has notiseable edge wear. Bottom of page block is a bit grubby. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Illustrated with numerous graphs and diagrams. Seller Inventory # 222971

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Characteristics of Parallel Algorithms (...

Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Used

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Synopsis:

Although there has been a tremendous growth of interest in parallel architecture and parallel processing in recent years, comparatively little work has been done on the problem of characterizing parallelism in programs and algorithms. This book, a collection of original papers, specifically addresses that topic. The editors and two dozen other contributors have produced a work that cuts across numerical analysis, artificial intelligence, and database management, speaking to questions that lie at the heart of current research in these and many other fields of knowledge: How much commonality in algorithm structure is there across problem domains? What attributes of algorithms are the most important in dictating the structure of a parallel algorithm? How can algorithms be matched with languages and architectures? Their book provides an important starting place for a comprehensive taxonomy of parallel algorithms.The Characteristics of Parallel Algorithms is included in the Scientific Computation Series, edited by Dennis Gannon.

About the Author:

Robert Douglass head of Machine Intelligence and part of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. Dennis B. Gannon is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Leah H. Jamieson is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. William Gropp is Director of the Parallel Computing Institute and Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ewing Lusk is Argonne Distinguished Fellow Emeritus at Argonne National Laboratory.