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An Introduction to Parallel Programming
International reprint edition. Paperback. Published in China. Contents in ENGLISH and totally same as US Edition.
392 pages, Paperback
First published January 4, 2011
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July 19, 2020
Eminently readable for a text book, it introduces concepts with thorough examples, and libraries that can be used for parallelization. I do wish a newer edition would be released, since this one is getting a little dated.
April 3, 2018
A good overview of parallel programming concepts using MPI, OpenMP, and POSIX Threads.
September 17, 2024
NOTE: This review is for the second edition of the book.
The book is splendidly readable, and introduces a variety of essential techniques to working with MPI, PThreads, OpenMP and CUDA. All of these chapters were helpful, and especially chapter 2 summarizing the key issues that come with trying to parallelize your code. I was not a huge fan of the second part of chapter 7, running through sample sort for a variety of algorithms. Compared to the rest of the book it was a bit clunky. All things considered though, I think it did a solid job.
The book is splendidly readable, and introduces a variety of essential techniques to working with MPI, PThreads, OpenMP and CUDA. All of these chapters were helpful, and especially chapter 2 summarizing the key issues that come with trying to parallelize your code. I was not a huge fan of the second part of chapter 7, running through sample sort for a variety of algorithms. Compared to the rest of the book it was a bit clunky. All things considered though, I think it did a solid job.
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