Introduction to PARALLEL PROGRAMMING

Steven Brawer

ISBN 10: 0121284700 / ISBN 13: 9780121284701

Published by Academic Press, San Diego, 1992

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VG, hardback, dark blue pictorial boards with white titles on spine, contents are clean and unmarked, large octavo 422pp. Weight 1000g so an oversized and overweight book that will require extra shipping charges. Tiny Fortran; hardware & operating system models; processes, shared memory and simple parallel programs; parallel programming techniques; barriers and race conditions; overcoming data dependencies; scheduling summary; linear recurrence relations- backward dependencies; performance tuning; discrete event, discrete time simulation; applications; semaphores & events; programming projects. Appendices: equivalent C & Fortran constructs; EPF - Fortran && for parallel programming; parallel programming on a Uniprocessor under Unix. Seller Inventory # 001464

Bibliographic Details

Title: Introduction to PARALLEL PROGRAMMING

Publisher: Academic Press, San Diego

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

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.