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September 9, 2005

Free Parallel Computing Book

Introduction to Parallel Computing, Second Edition
 
Pub Date: January 16, 2003
Pages: 856
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   Preface
    Chapter 1.  Introduction to Parallel Computing
      Section 1.1.  Motivating Parallelism
      Section 1.2.  Scope of Parallel Computing
      Section 1.3.  Organization and Contents of the Text
      Section 1.4.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 2.  Parallel Programming Platforms
      Section 2.1.  Implicit Parallelism: Trends in Microprocessor Architectures*
      Section 2.2.  Limitations of Memory System Performance*
      Section 2.3.  Dichotomy of Parallel Computing Platforms
      Section 2.4.  Physical Organization of Parallel Platforms
      Section 2.5.  Communication Costs in Parallel Machines
      Section 2.6.  Routing Mechanisms for Interconnection Networks
      Section 2.7.  Impact of Process-Processor Mapping and Mapping Techniques
      Section 2.8.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 3.  Principles of Parallel Algorithm Design
      Section 3.1.  Preliminaries
      Section 3.2.  Decomposition Techniques
      Section 3.3.  Characteristics of Tasks and Interactions
      Section 3.4.  Mapping Techniques for Load Balancing
      Section 3.5.  Methods for Containing Interaction Overheads
      Section 3.6.  Parallel Algorithm Models
      Section 3.7.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 4.  Basic Communication Operations
      Section 4.1.  One-to-All Broadcast and All-to-One Reduction
      Section 4.2.  All-to-All Broadcast and Reduction
      Section 4.3.  All-Reduce and Prefix-Sum Operations
      Section 4.4.  Scatter and Gather
      Section 4.5.  All-to-All Personalized Communication
      Section 4.6.  Circular Shift
      Section 4.7.  Improving the Speed of Some Communication Operations
      Section 4.8.  Summary
      Section 4.9.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 5.  Analytical Modeling of Parallel Programs
      Section 5.1.  Sources of Overhead in Parallel Programs
      Section 5.2.  Performance Metrics for Parallel Systems
      Section 5.3.  The Effect of Granularity on Performance
      Section 5.4.  Scalability of Parallel Systems
      Section 5.5.  Minimum Execution Time and Minimum Cost-Optimal Execution Time
      Section 5.6.  Asymptotic Analysis of Parallel Programs
      Section 5.7.  Other Scalability Metrics
      Section 5.8.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 6.  Programming Using the Message-Passing Paradigm
      Section 6.1.  Principles of Message-Passing Programming
      Section 6.2.  The Building Blocks: Send and Receive Operations
      Section 6.3.  MPI: the Message Passing Interface
      Section 6.4.  Topologies and Embedding
      Section 6.5.  Overlapping Communication with Computation
      Section 6.6.  Collective Communication and Computation Operations
      Section 6.7.  Groups and Communicators
      Section 6.8.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 7.  Programming Shared Address Space Platforms
      Section 7.1.  Thread Basics
      Section 7.2.  Why Threads?
      Section 7.3.  The POSIX Thread API
      Section 7.4.  Thread Basics: Creation and Termination
      Section 7.5.  Synchronization Primitives in Pthreads
      Section 7.6.  Controlling Thread and Synchronization Attributes
      Section 7.7.  Thread Cancellation
      Section 7.8.  Composite Synchronization Constructs
      Section 7.9.  Tips for Designing Asynchronous Programs
      Section 7.10.  OpenMP: a Standard for Directive Based Parallel Programming
      Section 7.11.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 8.  Dense Matrix Algorithms
      Section 8.1.  Matrix-Vector Multiplication
      Section 8.2.  Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
      Section 8.3.  Solving a System of Linear Equations
      Section 8.4.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 9.  Sorting
      Section 9.1.  Issues in Sorting on Parallel Computers
      Section 9.2.  Sorting Networks
      Section 9.3.  Bubble Sort and its Variants
      Section 9.4.  Quicksort
      Section 9.5.  Bucket and Sample Sort
      Section 9.6.  Other Sorting Algorithms
      Section 9.7.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 10.  Graph Algorithms
      Section 10.1.  Definitions and Representation
      Section 10.2.  Minimum Spanning Tree: Prim's Algorithm
      Section 10.3.  Single-Source Shortest Paths: Dijkstra's Algorithm
      Section 10.4.  All-Pairs Shortest Paths
      Section 10.5.  Transitive Closure
      Section 10.6.  Connected Components
      Section 10.7.  Algorithms for Sparse Graphs
      Section 10.8.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 11.  Search Algorithms for Discrete Optimization Problems
      Section 11.1.  Definitions and Examples
      Section 11.2.  Sequential Search Algorithms
      Section 11.3.  Search Overhead Factor
      Section 11.4.  Parallel Depth-First Search
      Section 11.5.  Parallel Best-First Search
      Section 11.6.  Speedup Anomalies in Parallel Search Algorithms
      Section 11.7.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 12.  Dynamic Programming
      Section 12.1.  Overview of Dynamic Programming
      Section 12.2.  Serial Monadic DP Formulations
      Section 12.3.  Nonserial Monadic DP Formulations
      Section 12.4.  Serial Polyadic DP Formulations
      Section 12.5.  Nonserial Polyadic DP Formulations
      Section 12.6.  Summary and Discussion
      Section 12.7.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Chapter 13.  Fast Fourier Transform
      Section 13.1.  The Serial Algorithm
      Section 13.2.  The Binary-Exchange Algorithm
      Section 13.3.  The Transpose Algorithm
      Section 13.4.  Bibliographic Remarks
      Problems
    Appendix A.  Complexity of Functions and Order Analysis
      Section A.1.  Complexity of Functions
      Section A.2.  Order Analysis of Functions
   Bibliography

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