High Performance Computing: Programming and Applications presents techniques that address new performance issues in the programming of high performance computing (HPC) applications. Omitting tedious details, the book discusses hardware architecture concepts and programming techniques that are the most pertinent to application developers for achieving high performance. Even though the text concentrates on C and Fortran, the techniques described can be applied to other languages, such as C++ and Java. Drawing on their experience with chips from AMD and systems, interconnects, and software from Cray Inc., the authors explore the problems that create bottlenecks in attaining good performance. They cover techniques that pertain to each of the three levels of parallelism: 1. Message passing between the nodes 2. Shared memory parallelism on the nodes or the multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) units on the accelerator 3. Vectorization on the inner level After discussing architectural and software challenges, the book outlines a strategy for porting and optimizing an existing application to a large massively parallel processor (MPP) system. With a look toward the future, it also introduces the use of general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) for carrying out HPC computations. A companion website at www.hybridmulticoreoptimization.com contains all the examples from the book, along with updated timing results on the latest released processors.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781420077056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95810312
Product Key Features
Author
John Levesque, Gene Wagenbreth
Publication Name
High Performance Computing: Programming and Applications
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
244 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
544g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gene Wagenbreth, John Levesque
Series Title
Chapman & Hall/Crc Computational Science
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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