1st Edition
Parallel Computers 2 Architecture, Programming and Algorithms
642 Pages
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CRC Press
644 Pages
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CRC Press
642 Pages
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CRC Press
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Since the publication of the first edition, parallel computing technology has gained considerable momentum. A large proportion of this has come from the improvement in VLSI techniques, offering one to two orders of magnitude more devices than previously possible. A second contributing factor in the fast development of the subject is commercialization. The supercomputer is no longer restricted to a... Read more
Introduction: History of parallelism and supercomputing. Classification of designs. Characteristics of performance. Pipelined computers: Selection and comparison. The CRAY X-MP and CRAY-2. The CDC CYBER and ETA 10. Japanese vector computers. The FPS AP-120B and derivatives. Multiprocessors and multiprocessor arrays: The limitations of pipelining. The alternative of replication. Switching networks. An historical perspective. Replication - a future with VLSI. Parallel languages: Introduction. Implicit parallelism and vectorisation. Structure parallelism. Process parallelism. Techniques for exploiting parallelism. Parallel algorithms: General principles. Recurrences. Matrix multiplication. Tridiagonal systems. Transforms. Partial differential equations. Technology and the future: Characterisation. Bipolar technologies (TTL, ECL, I2L). MOS technologies (NMOS and CMOS). Scaling technologies. The problem with scaling. System partitioning. Wafer-scale integration. The last word. Appendix. References. Index.
Biography
Hockney, R.W | Jesshope, C.R
