Parallel Programming - Barry Wilkinson, Michael Allen

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Designed for undergraduate/graduate-level parallel programming courses. This nontheoretical, highly accessible text-which is linked to real parallel programming software-covers the techniques of parallel programming in a practical manner that enables students to write and evaluate their parallel pro

Résumé :
This accessible text covers the techniques of parallel programming in a practical manner that enables readers to write and evaluate their parallel programs. Supported by the National Science Foundation and exhaustively class-tested, it is the first text of its kind that does not require access to a special multiprocessor system, concentrating instead on parallel programs that can be executed on networked computers using freely available parallel software tools. KEY TOPICS: The book covers the timely topic of cluster programming, interesting to many programmers due to the recent availability of low-cost computers. Uses MPI pseudocodes to describe algorithms and allows different programming tools to be implemented, and provides readers with thorough coverage of shared memory programming, including Pthreads and OpenMP. MARKET: Useful as a professional reference for programmers and system administrators....

Sommaire:

I. BASIC TECHNIQUES.

1. Parallel Computers.

2. Message-Passing Computing.

3. Embarrassingly Parallel Computations.

4. Partitioning and Divide-and-Conquer Strategies.

5. Pipelined Computations.

6. Synchronous Computations.

7. Load Balancing and Termination Detection.

8. Programming with Shared Memory.

9. Distributed Shared Memory Systems and Programming.

II. ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS.

10. Sorting Algorithms.

11. Numerical Algorithms.

12. Image Processing.

13. Searching and Optimization.

Appendix A: Basic MPI Routines. Appendix B: Basic Pthread Routines. Appendix C: OpenMP Directives, Library Functions, and Environment Variables Index.