Designing and Building Parallel Programs: Concepts and Tools for Parallel Software Engineering by Ian T. Foster

by Ian Foster

This book introduces the parallel paradigm, and shows how parallel programming is carried out using a variety of programming languages. Foster details actual applications examples from engineering, science, and finance while keeping the focus throughout on parallel programming as opposed to algorithm development.Contents (1995 edition)PrefaceTerminologyPART I CONCEPTS1. Parallel Computers and Computations2. Designing Parallel Algorithms3. A Quantitative Basis for Design4. Putting Components TogetherPART II TOOLS5. Compositional C++6. Fortran M7. High Performance Fortran8. Message Passing Interface9. Performance ToolsPART III RESOURCES10. Random numbers11. Hypercube Algorithms12. Further reading13. About the Online VersionReferencesIndex

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First published February 10, 1995