Practical parallel computing
- 1st ed.
- Boston : AP Professional, c1994
- xviii, 401 p. ; 23 cm.
1- The status and future of massively parallel processing 2- Can parallel machines be used efficiently? 3- An introduction to hardware architectures 4- Shared memory parallel language constructs 5- Message passing 6- SIMD and array-based languages 7- Linda 8- The development environment for parallel software 9- Operating system issues 10- Benchmarking parallel applications 11- Porting and developing parallel applications 12- Matching applications to architectures -- App. A: The sample problem -- App. B: SGI challenge -- App. C: nCube -- App. D: Express -- App. E: Intel Paragon -- App. F: MasPar MP-1 -- App. G: C on the connection Machine -- app. H: Linda -- App. I: Two recent machines.