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Author Foster, Ian, 1959-

Title Designing and building parallel programs : concepts and tools for parallel software engineering / Ian T. Foster
Published Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, [1995]
©1995

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Description xiii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. I. Concepts. 1. Parallel Computers and Computation. 2. Designing Parallel Algorithms. 3. A Quantitative Basis for Design. 4. Putting Components Together -- Pt. II. Tools. 5. Compositional C++. 6. Fortran M. 7. High Performance Fortran. 8. Message Passing Interface. 9. Performance Tools -- Pt. III. Resources. 10. Random Numbers. 11. Hypercube Algorithms -- 12. Further Reading -- 13. About the Online Version
Summary At last, a practitioner's guide to parallel programming! Students and professionals who use parallel or distributed computer systems will be able to solve real problems with Designing and Building Parallel Programs. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to parallel algorithm design, performance analysis, and program construction. It describes the tools needed to write parallel programs and provides numerous examples. A unique feature is the companion on-line version, accessible via the World Wide Web using browsers such as Mosaic. This provides a convenient hypertext version of the text with pointers to programming tools, example programs, and other resources on parallel and distributed computing
Analysis Parallel programming
Parallel programming
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Parallel programming (Computer science)
Parallel programming (Computer science)
LC no. 94003661
ISBN 0201575949