The Art of Parallel Programming

Download or read book The Art of Parallel Programming written by Bruce P. Lester and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of his book The Art of Parallel Programming was adopted as a course text by 62 universities. The Art of Parallel Programming is intended as a text for a first course in parallel computing, taught at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Now completely revised and updated, this book provides in-depth coverage of the major organizational techniques for parallel programs, including specific parallel algorithms to illustrate these techniques. Author Bruce P. Lester covers topics such as data partitioning, multiprocessor architecture, synchronous parallelism, MPI standard library, communication streams, data sharing, replicated workers, and much more.