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Mpi: The Complete Reference (Scientific and Engineering Computation Series)

Steve Otto, Steven Huss-Lederman, David Walker, Jack Dongarra

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A great reference for both C and FORTRAN users! 5 out of 5 stars.
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As the title implies, this book is a great reference for someone who is looking for a guide to the syntax and usage of MPI. The book does not teach "parallel programming" and doesn't discuss other parallel programming tools which means that the nuts and bolts of MPI are all the more clearly presented and accessible. Furthermore, there are still plenty of examples which demonstrate the usage of the many MPI functions.

Another very valuable (and appreciated) aspect of the book is that *both* the C and FORTRAN prototypes are given when new MPI functions are presented (the C and FORTRAN implementations have slightly different forms).

Excellent Reference 5 out of 5 stars.
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Set up more as a reference than a tutorial, this book allows users with a very basic understanding of MPI to really take off up the learning curve

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This volume covers issues in parallel computing and programming, such as true portability, deadlock, high-performance message passing, and libraries for distributed and parallel computing. The authors explain why certain design choices were made and how users are meant to use the MPI interface.

Network-Based Parallel Computing Communication Architecture, and Applications

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Communication, Architecture, and Applications for Network-Based Parallel Computing, CANPC 2000, held in Tolouse, France in January 2000. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in sections on program development and execution support, network router architecture, system support for communication abstractions, and network software and interface architecture.

Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing

Andy Clark

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Balanced insight 5 out of 5 stars.
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"Microcognition" is a wonderful book for anyone wanting to understand and cogitate the most heated issues in AI today. The book is written in 1989, so the most prominent issue is that of connectionism versus classical AI. The book gives very good introduction to both paradigms and provides the rader with lots of background material. The book is basically divided into 2 sections, 1) The Mind's-Eye View and 2) The Brain's-Eye View. The discussion is balanced and insightful, and Clark is a wonderful writer. His conclusion in short is that AI research must continue in both the "Mind's-Eye View" (classical AI) strand and the "Brain's-Eye View" (connectionism) strand for the paradigms have different aims.

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Parallel distributed processing is transforming the field of cognitive science. Microcognition provides a clear, readable guide to this emerging paradigm from a cognitive philosopher's point of view. It explains and explores the biological basis of PDP, its psychological importance, and its philosophical relevance.

Concurrent Programming: Principles and Practice

Greg Andrews

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It's a bit heavy stuff but well organized text book 5 out of 5 stars.
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It is a good book for anyone who wants to lecture in concurrent programming.This book will also help anyone explain the confusion among concurrent, parallel and distributed programs which have been around for the last three decades. The author touches the same three underlying concepts : processes, communication and synchronization. The ten chapters of the book is organized into four parts : basic concepts, shared variables, message passing and pratice. The first part, basic concepts, provides a formal presentation to introduce an assertional proof techniques for sequential and concurrent programming. The second and third parts, shared variables and message passing, elaborates the two major categories of synchronization technique in concurrent programming. Systematic method to solve synchronization problems are described throughout the chapters in two. In the last part, practice, the author provides an overview of five concurrent languanges : Turing Plus, Occam, Ada, SR and Linda. Comparison and performance experiments of all languanges are also provided in the last chapter. The book also includes some classic concurrent programming problems such as critical sections, producers and consumers, readers and writers, the dining philosophers and resource allocation. The 'Historical Notes and References' provided at the end of every chapter is a plus in which it provides citations to relevant literature and more insights to the related subject.

Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms

Vipin Kumar, Ananth Grama, Anshul Gupta, George Karpis

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Essential 4 any prospective parallel computing professional 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book when I was a 2nd grade CS student. I planned to start my research project in supercomputing field. So I decided to study the aspects of parallel computing starting by its concepts and programming. As a programmer I found that I would need the general view before coding. Kumar's book is great in which it gives you generalized overview of hardware and software architectures. He and his contributors don't take care of what system nor language you're using. Instead, they want you to learn Parallel Programming. Scientific and non-numerical algorithms are overviewed and explained mathematically. They prove everything they state by using mathematics. I don't know any better way. Do you? It's worth every penny.

Great details and insightful 4 out of 5 stars.
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This one is must for someone who has needs an introductory course for parallel computing. It dealt with the fundamental of parallel computing in terms of algorithms decide.

Good book on parallel computing 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book is a very good one for the parallel computing fields. The most interesting parts of the book to me are the parallel alogrithms design & analysis. The ideas are explained clearly and the exercises are nice too. I would like to recommend this book to all my friends who are interested in parallel computing.

Lazy Functional Languages: Abstract Interpretation and Compilation (Research Monographs in Parallel and Distributed Computing)

Geoffrey Burn

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The class of programming languages commonly known as functional includes Lisp, Scheme, ML, and Miranda TM. This book explores a subclass known as lazy functional languages, beginning with the theoretical issues and continuing through abstract interpretation and offering improved techniques for implementation.

Now that advanced compiler technology has made it possible for lazy functional languages to compare favorably in run-time with more traditional languages such as C and Pascal, this monograph tackles problems of implementation such as time and memory overheads and restrictions on parallelism. Specifically, it describes a more efficient implementation model, the evaluation transformer model, that can be used when information is known about how functions use their arguments, develops a semantically sound analysis technique called abstract interpretation, which can determine this information, and shows how to use the information to compile more efficient code for sequential and parallel machines.

Geoffrey Burn is Lecturer at Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London.

Contents: Introduction. Operational and Denotational Semantics of the Typed Lambda Calculus. A Framework for the Abstract Interpretation of Functional Languages. Some Example Abstract Interpretations. Evaluation Transformers. Implementing Functional Languages on Sequential and Parallel Machines. Relationship to Other Work. Epilogue. Appendixes: Additional Proofs. The Spineless G-Machine.

High Performance Parallel Database Processing and Grid Databases (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

David Taniar, Clement H. C. Leung, Wenny Rahayu, Sushant Goel

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The growth in grid databases, coupled with the utility of parallel query processing, presents an important opportunity to understand and utilize high-performance parallel database processing within a major database management system (DBMS). This important new book provides readers with a fundamental understanding of parallelism in data-intensive applications, and demonstrates how to develop faster capabilities to support them. It presents a balanced treatment of the theoretical and practical aspects of high-performance databases to demonstrate how parallel query is executed in a DBMS, including concepts, algorithms, analytical models, and grid transactions.

Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computational Science Series)

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Although the highly anticipated petascale computers of the near future will perform at an order of magnitude faster than today’s quickest supercomputer, the scaling up of algorithms and applications for this class of computers remains a tough challenge. From scalable algorithm design for massive concurrency toperformance analyses and scientific visualization, Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications captures the state of the art in high-performance computing algorithms and applications. Featuring contributions from the world’s leading experts in computational science, this edited collection explores the use of petascale computers for solving the most difficult scientific and engineering problems of the current century.

Covering a wide range of important topics, the book illustrates how petascale computing can be applied to space and Earth science missions, biological systems, weather prediction, climate science, disasters, black holes, and gamma ray bursts. It details the simulation of multiphysics, cosmological evolution, molecular dynamics, and biomolecules. The book also discusses computational aspects that include the Uintah framework, Enzo code, multithreaded algorithms, petaflops, performance analysis tools, multilevel finite element solvers, finite element code development, Charm++, and the Cactus framework.

Supplying petascale tools, programming methodologies, and an eight-page color insert, this volume addresses the challenging problems of developing application codes that can take advantage of the architectural features of the new petascale systems in advance of their first deployment.

Software Design Methods for Concurrent and Real-Time Systems (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

Hassan Gomaa

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Thorough treatment of various real-time techniques 5 out of 5 stars.
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Dr. Gomaa discusses real-time analysis and design in a very lucid, yet compact, book. Even in this day of full object-orientation and UML, he presents timeless techniques and thought processes that are still applicable to the development of real-time systems. He is also one of the few authors who treat performance issues in a modern, quantitative way. The reader must be patient enough to translate the book's notation into something more compatible with the UML, but the book's still worth the purchase price.

Excellent thorough presentation 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'm using CODARTS in my everyday job and have found it to be an excellent approach for real time system design and development. We had the opportunity to have Dr. Gomaa as a consultant on our project and his methodology is a great tool in identifying scenarios, system states, flows, objects, and collaboration or sequence diagrams. He is currently writing a UML version of this book. Our project is using CODARTS, UML, and Rational Rose. He provides excellent examples of concurrent systems using banking and elevator systems. Overall, I'd recommend you buy this book if you are going to do any concurrent systems now or in the future. It now sits on my bookshelf in a prominent location, because of its clear description of how CODARTS works and what I need to do to design a great object oriented real time system.

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This book describes the concepts and methods used in the software design of real-time systems. The author outlines the characteristics of real-time systems, describes the role of software design in real-time system development, surveys and compares some software design methods for real-time systems, and outlines techniques for the verification and validation of real-time system designs.

The Origins of Concurrent Programming: From Semaphores to Remote Procedure Calls

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This book is a collection of original papers written by the computer scientists who made the major breakthroughs in concurrent programming. It covers the pioneering era of the field, from the semaphores of the mid 1960s to the remote procedure calls of the late 1970s.

"The Origin of Concurrent Programming" presents 19 seminal papers by E. W. Dijkstra, P. Brinch Hansen, and C. A. R. Hoare.

While focusing on contributions of major and lasting importance, the book:

* Features an essay that summarizes the papers and puts them in historical perspective.

* Builds on fundamental programming concepts, such as speed independence, fair scheduling, mutual exclusion, deadlock prevention, and process communication.

* Covers the invention of programming notation for semaphores, conditional critical regions, monitors, synchronous message communication, and remote procedure calls.

* Captures the historic contribution of concurrent programming to our understanding of operating system principles.

* Illustrates the use of semaphores, message buffers, and monitors in the systematic design of operating systems.

* Describes secure programming languages based on monitors and synchronous message communication.

* Includes a bibliography of 160 papers and books on concurrent programming.

Edited by a computer pioneer, "The Origin of Concurrent Programming" is an essential reader on the historic development of concurrent programming. It is an invaluable resource for students, researchers and professionals who are familiar with operating system principles.