Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More

Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More

A textbook on parallel programming. The main programming language used is C/C++, but some of the code is in R.

Publication date: 01 Jun 2015

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Paperback: 349 pages

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Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More

Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More A textbook on parallel programming. The main programming language used is C/C++, but some of the code is in R.
Tag(s): Parallel Computing
Publication date: 01 Jun 2015
ISBN-10: n/a
ISBN-13: n/a
Paperback: 349 pages
Views: 9,153
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Publisher: n/a
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
Post time: 19 Jul 2016 03:00:00
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About the Book:
Norman Matloff wrote:Why is this book different from all other parallel programming books? It is aimed more on the practical end of things, in that: 

  • There is very little theoretical content, such as O() analysis, maximum theoretical speedup, PRAMs, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and so on. 
  • Real code is featured throughout.
  • We use the main parallel platforms—OpenMP, CUDA and MPI—rather than languages that at this stage are largely experimental or arcane. 
  • The running performance themes—communications latency, memory/network contention, load balancing and so on—are interleaved throughout the book, discussed in the context of specific platforms or applications. 
  • Considerable attention is paid to techniques for debugging.


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About The Author(s)


Dr. Norm Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, and was formerly a professor of statistics at that university. He is a former database software developer in Silicon Valley, and has been a statistical consultant for firms such as the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan. He was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, and has a PhD in pure mathematics from UCLA, specializing in probability/functional analysis and statistics.

Norman  Matloff

Dr. Norm Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, and was formerly a professor of statistics at that university. He is a former database software developer in Silicon Valley, and has been a statistical consultant for firms such as the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan. He was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, and has a PhD in pure mathematics from UCLA, specializing in probability/functional analysis and statistics.


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