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Introduction to Parallel Algorithms (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

C. Xavier, S. S. Iyengar

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Parallel algorithms Made Easy

The complexity of today's applications coupled with the widespread use of parallel computing has made the design and analysis of parallel algorithms topics of growing interest. This volume fills a need in the field for an introductory treatment of parallel algorithms-appropriate even at the undergraduate level, where no other textbooks on the subject exist. It features a systematic approach to the latest design techniques, providing analysis and implementation details for each parallel algorithm described in the book. Introduction to Parallel Algorithms covers foundations of parallel computing; parallel algorithms for trees and graphs; parallel algorithms for sorting, searching, and merging; and numerical algorithms. This remarkable book:
* Presents basic concepts in clear and simple terms
* Incorporates numerous examples to enhance students' understanding
* Shows how to develop parallel algorithms for all classical problems in computer science, mathematics, and engineering
* Employs extensive illustrations of new design techniques
* Discusses parallel algorithms in the context of PRAM model
* Includes end-of-chapter exercises and detailed references on parallel computing.

This book enables universities to offer parallel algorithm courses at the senior undergraduate level in computer science and engineering. It is also an invaluable text/reference for graduate students, scientists, and engineers in computer science, mathematics, and engineering.

McSe Training Kit: Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Advanced Server Clustering Services (Pro-Certification)

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Inaccurate account of DHCP Clustering 2 out of 5 stars.
8 of 11 people found this review helpful.

If a reviewer found this book useful for preparing for a Microsoft test, then judging from results, it must be a useful book.

I found it, however, to be inaccurate in chapter 6, when it discussed how to cluster DHCP & WINS.

Moreover, having created a real cluster on the basis of research in other Microsoft materials, I don't see how anyone could actually understand, from this book, with its overly concise and telegraphic descriptions of cluster activities, how even something as basic as disk groups work.

I hate the way the authors just dump terms like "domainlet" (page 7 & 35) and "dumpconfig" (page 147 & 148), neither of which is mentioned more than once, into the text and expect that the readers understand them.

I hate the way, as in almost all Microsoft training kits, one passage contradicts another.

I hate the way it seems as if the Microsoft Training Kits are written by flunkouts from remedial English classes.

A good example of this is Kay Unkroth's "Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Training Kit." This person isn't a native speaker of English, considering her bizarre sentences.

Moreover, that book is poorly proofread with obvious grammar errors scattered through it.

I do this stuff for a living and poor quality just ticks me off.

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With this official MCSE TRAINING KIT, IT professionals learn how to take advantage of the powerful clustering services in the Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating system to maximize application and data availability, minimize downtime, and reduce IT costs. As they build these essential system-support skills, they're also getting in-depth preparation for MCP Exam 70-223-an elective on the Windows 2000 MCSE track. Topics map directly to the objectives measured by the exam, including configuring the network for Cluster Service installation, installing the software, setting and troubleshooting services and applications on a cluster, managing cluster resources, and optimizing cluster performance. Students learn through an integrated system of lessons, skill-building tutorials, and self-assessment exercises. An economical alternative to classroom instruction, this kit enables busy professionals to set their own pace and learn by doing!

High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O: Technologies and Applications

Rajkumar Buyya, Toni Cortes, Hai Jin

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* Due to the growth of Internet-driven applications, issues such as storage capacity and access speed have become critical in the design of today's computer systems
* Book fills the need for a readily-accessible single reference source on the subject of high-performance, large scale storage and delivery systems
* Contains the latest information and future directions of disk arrays and parallel I/O
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Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90, Vol. 2

William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, Brian P. Flannery

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Program listings 1 out of 5 stars.
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Although the original FORTRAN77 version of Numerical Recipes is highly acclaimed (and rightfully so, it is really worth every buck) I do not recommend this FORTRAN90 book. I was very disappointed when I received it. A huge part of the book only contains F90 program listings for the same routines that are derived and discussed in detail in Volume I (F77). The two new introductory chapters make it not worth buying the book. Instead, get the Numerical Recipes CD-ROM which includes the source code for C, F77, F90 and other languages and maybe a good introductory or reference book on F90.

(The review of "oblinqued" down below is obviously referring to the original book as the F90 book was not available in 1991).

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The second volume of the Fortran Numerical Recipes series, Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90 contains a detailed introduction to the Fortran 90 language and to the basic concepts of parallel programming, plus source code for all routines from the second edition of Numerical Recipes. This volume does not repeat any of the discussion of what individual programs actually do, the mathematical methods they utilize, or how to use them.

Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (Software, Environments and Tools)

Padma Raghavan, and Horst D. Simon Edited by Michael A. Heroux

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Software, Environments, and Tools 20

Scientific computing has often been called the third approach to scientific discovery, emerging as a peer to experimentation and theory. Historically, the synergy between experimentation and theory has been well understood: experiments give insight into possible theories, theories inspire experiments, experiments reinforce or invalidate theories, and so on. As scientific computing has evolved to produce results that meet or exceed the quality of experimental and theoretical results, it has become indispensable.

Parallel processing has been an enabling technology in scientific computing for more than 20 years. This book is the first in-depth discussion of parallel computing in 10 years; it reflects the mix of topics that mathematicians, computer scientists, and computational scientists focus on to make parallel processing effective for scientific problems. Presently, the impact of parallel processing on scientific computing varies greatly across disciplines, but it plays a vital role in most problem domains and is absolutely essential in many of them.

Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing is divided into four parts: The first concerns performance modeling, analysis, and optimization; the second focuses on parallel algorithms and software for an array of problems common to many modeling and simulation applications; the third emphasizes tools and environments that can ease and enhance the process of application development; and the fourth provides a sampling of applications that require parallel computing for scaling to solve larger and realistic models that can advance science and engineering.

This edited volume serves as an up-to-date reference for researchers and application developers on the state of the art in scientific computing. It also serves as an excellent overview and introduction, especially for graduate and senior-level undergraduate students interested in computational modeling and simulation and related computer science and applied mathematics aspects.

Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1: Frontiers of Scientific Computing: An Overview; Part I: Performance Modeling, Analysis and Optimization. Chapter 2: Performance Analysis: From Art to Science; Chapter 3: Approaches to Architecture-Aware Parallel Scientific Computation; Chapter 4: Achieving High Performance on the BlueGene/L Supercomputer; Chapter 5: Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Ultra-Scale Systems; Part II: Parallel Algorithms and Enabling Technologies. Chapter 6: Partitioning and Load Balancing; Chapter 7: Combinatorial Parallel and Scientific Computing; Chapter 8: Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement; Chapter 9: Parallel Sparse Solvers, Preconditioners, and Their Applications; Chapter 10: A Survey of Parallelization Techniques for Multigrid Solvers; Chapter 11: Fault Tolerance in Large-Scale Scientific Computing; Part III: Tools and Frameworks for Parallel Applications. Chapter 12: Parallel Tools and Environments: A Survey; Chapter 13: Parallel Linear Algebra Software; Chapter 14: High-Performance Component Software Systems; Chapter 15: Integrating Component-Based Scientific Computing Software; Part IV: Applications of Parallel Computing. Chapter 16: Parallel Algorithms for PDE-Constrained Optimization; Chapter 17: Massively Parallel Mixed-Integer Programming; Chapter 18: Parallel Methods and Software for Multicomponent Simulations; Chapter 19: Parallel Computational Biology; Chapter 20: Opportunities and Challenges for Parallel Computing in Science and Engineering; Index.

Parallel Computing Using the Prefix Problem

S. Lakshmivarahan, Sudarshan K. Dhall

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The prefix operation on a set of data is one of the simplest and most useful building blocks in parallel algorithms. This introduction to those aspects of parallel programming and parallel algorithms that relate to the prefix problem emphasizes its use in a broad range of familiar and important problems. The book illustrates how the prefix operation approach to parallel computing leads to fast and efficient solutions to many different kinds of problems. Students, teachers, programmers, and computer scientists will want to read this clear exposition of an important approach.

Piecewise Regular Arrays: Application-Specific Computations (Parallel Processing , Vol 1)

Thomas P Plaks

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Application-specific regular array processors have been widely used in signal and image processing, multimedia and communication systems, for example, in data compression and HDTV. One of the main problems of application-specific computing is how to map algorithms into hardware.
The major achievement of the theory of regular arrays is that an algorithm, represented as a data dependence graph, is embedded into a Euclidean space, where the integer points are the elementary computations and the dependencies between computations are denoted by vectors between points. The process of mapping an algorithm into hardware is reduced to finding, for the given Euclidean space, a new coordinate system that can be associated with the physical properties of space and time - so called space-time.
The power of the synthesis method is that it provides a bridge between "abstract" and "physical" representations of algorithms, thus providing a methodological basis for synthesizing computations in space and in time

Practical Parallel Programming (Scientific and Engineering Computation)

Gregory V. Wilson

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Parallel computers have become widely available in recent years. Many scientists are now using them to investigate the grand challenges of science, such as modeling global climate change, determining the masses of elementary particles from first principles, or sequencing the human genome. However, software for parallel computers has developed far more slowly than the hardware. Many incompatible programming systems exist, and many useful programming techniques are not widely known. Practical Parallel Programming provides scientists and engineers with a detailed, informative, and often critical introduction to parallel programming techniques. Following a review of the fundamentals of parallel computer theory and architecture, it describes four of the most popular parallel programming models in use today -- data parallelism, shared variables, message passing, and Linda -- and shows how each can be used to solve various scientific and numerical problems. Examples, coded in various dialects of Fortran, are drawn from such domains as the solution of partial differential equations, solution of linear equations, the simulation of cellular automata, studies of rock fracturing, and image processing. Practical Parallel Programming will be particularly helpful for scientists and engineers who use high-performance computers to solve numerical problems and do physical simulations but who have little experience of networking or concurrency. The book can also be used by advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computer science in conjunction with material covering parallel architectures and algorithms in more detail. Computer science students will gain a critical appraisal of the current state of the art in parallel programming. Scientific and Engineering Computation series

Communication and Control in Electric Power Systems: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Processing (IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering)

Mohammad Shahidehpour, Yaoyu Wang

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The first extensive reference on these important techniques

The restructuring of the electric utility industry has created the need for a mechanism that can effectively coordinate the various entities in a power market, enabling them to communicate efficiently and perform at an optimal level. Communication and Control in Electric Power Systems, the first resource to address its subject in an extended format, introduces parallel and distributed processing techniques as a compelling solution to this critical problem.

Drawing on their years of experience in the industry, Mohammad Shahidehpour and Yaoyu Wang deliver comprehensive coverage of parallel and distributed processing techniques with a focus on power system optimization, control, and communication. The authors begin with theoretical background and an overview of the increasingly deregulated power market, then move quickly into the practical applications and implementations of these pivotal techniques.

Chapters include:

Integrated Control Center Information

Parallel and Distributed Computation of Power Systems

Common Information Model and Middleware for Integration

Online Distributed Security Assessment and Control

Integration, Control, and Operation of Distributed Generation

Agent Theory and Power Systems Management

e-Commerce of Electricity

A ready resource for both students and practitioners, Communication and Control in Electric Power Systems proves an ideal textbook for first-year graduate students in power engineering with an interest in computer communication systems and control center design. Designers, operators, planners, and researchers will likewise appreciate its unique contribution to the professional literature.

Domain Decomposition: Parallel Multilevel Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

Barry Smith, Petter Bjorstad, William Gropp

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Good book that introduces domain decomposition 4 out of 5 stars.
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A little something for everyone in this text. Discussion of computational issues, references, algorithms, and some convergence analysis. The authors do a good job of covering the subject at an understandable level. A small fault with the book is it leaves you wanting more! Excellent way to learn about these methods on your own.

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This book presents an easy-to-read discussion of domain decomposition algorithms, their implementation and analysis. The relationship between domain decomposition and multigrid methods is carefully explained at an elementary level, and discussions of the implementation of domain decomposition methods on massively parallel super computers are also included. All algorithms are fully described and explained, and a mathematical framework for the analysis and complete understanding of the methods is also carefully developed. In addition, numerous numerical examples are included to demonstrate the behaviour of this important class of numerical methods. This book is ideal for graduate students about to embark on a career in computational science. It will also be a valuable resource for all those interested in parallel computing and numerical computational methods.