Scientific parallel computing /
L. Ridgway Scott, Terry Clark, Babak Bagheri.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
- 374 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-368) and index.
Introduction -- Parallel performance -- Computer architecture -- Dependences -- Parallel languages -- Collective operations -- Current programming standards -- The Planguage model -- High Performance Fortran -- Loop tiling -- Matrix Eigen analysis -- Linear systems -- Particle dynamics -- Mesh methods -- Sorting.
From modelling financial markets to global weather patterns, parallel computing enables computations beyond the reach of sequential methods. This text integrates all the fundamentals of parallel computing while also providing a basis for a deeper understanding of the subject.