Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks (eBook)

ALEXEY L. LASTOVETSKY, PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University College, Dublin. Previously, he was a senior member of the technical staff at Iona Technologies, Ireland, and has also held appointments at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow State University.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART I. EVOLUTION OF PARALLEL COMPUTING.

Serial Scalar Processor.

Vector and Superscalar Processors.

Shared Memory Multiprocessors.

Distributed Memory Multiprocessors.

Networks of Computers: Architecture and Programming
Challenges.

PART II. PARALLEL PROGRAMMING FOR NETWORKS OF COMPUTERS WITH MPC
AND HMPI.

Introduction to mpC.

Advanced Heterogeneous Parallel Programming in mpC.

Toward a Message-Passing Library for Heterogeneous Networks of
Computers.

PART III. APPLICATIONS OF HETEROGENEOUS PARALLEL COMPUTING.

Scientific Applications.

Business and Software Engineering Applications.

Appendix A: The mpC N-Body Application.

Appendix B: The Block Cyclic Matrix Multiplication Routine for
Heterogeneneous Platforms.

Appendix C: The Parallel Adaptive Quadrature Routine.

Appendix D: The mpC User's Guide.

Bibliography.

Index.

"If you're looking for solutions for numerical programming on networks of computers, then...[this] is the book for you...one of the book's greatest strengths is its simplicity...moves smoothly from one topic to the next." (IEEE Distributed Systems Online, November 2004)