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Parallel Programming: Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers, CourseSmart eTextbook, 2/E
Barry Wilkinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Michael Allen, Birkbeck College, University of London

ISBN-10: 0131288156
ISBN-13:  9780131288157

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2005
Format:  On-line Supplement; 496 pp
Published:  09/15/2004
Status: Instock



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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.


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