Scientific Computing on Itanium-Based Systems

by Marius Cornea, John Harrison, Ping Tak Peter Tang

This guide provides instructions for constructing numerical infrastructure and application programs for the Itanium architecture. Chapters concentrate on topics like application registers, floating-point architecture, memory and speculation, assembly language programming, division and square root, and run-time support. The book outlines the techniques and illustrates them with tested examples. The authors are algorithm designers with PhDs. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

280 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2002