Portability and Performance of Parallel Processors
Published on 25. July 1994
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-471-94246-7 (ISBN)
Description
Without the portability of software, parallel computers are too expensive to program. Although portability and performance are important for parallel processing, they are often in conflict. This study explores possible means of resolving that conflict. Presenting key topics in parallel computation, the volume covers a wide spectrum of machine styles (shared memory, message passing, PRAMs, etc) and is concerned with software methodologies, programming languages and computational models, and the various measurement techniques for comparing their efficiency on highly parallel machines.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 172 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-94246-7 (9780471942467)
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Content
Partial table of contents:; Foundations of Practical Parallel Programming Languages (L. Snyder); Towards a Model for Portable Parallel Performance: Exposing the Memory Hierarchy (B. Alpern & L. Carter); An Architecture Independent Programming Model for Scalable Parallel Computing (W. McColl); Fast Parallel Sorting Under LogP: From Theory to Practice (D. Culler, et al.); CICO: A Practical Shared-Memory Programming Performance Model (J. Larus, et al.); Performance, Portability and Implicit Parallelism (F. Irigoin); Portable Parallel Programming (T. Brandes & C.-A; Thole); Performance Parameters and Results for the Genesis Parallel Benchmarks (R. Hockney); Index.