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1、Page1of1[TeamLiB]•TableofContentsIntroductiontoParallelComputing,SecondEditionByAnanthGrama,AnshulGupta,GeorgeKarypis,VipinKumarPublisher:AddisonWesleyPubDate:January16,2003ISBN:0-201-64865-2Pages:856Increasingly,parallelprocessingisbeingseenastheonlycost-effectivemethodforthefastsolut

2、ionofcomputationallylargeanddata-intensiveproblems.TheemergenceofinexpensiveparallelcomputerssuchascommoditydesktopmultiprocessorsandclustersofworkstationsorPCshasmadesuchparallelmethodsgenerallyapplicable,ashavesoftwarestandardsforportableparallelprogramming.Thissetsthestageforsubstan

3、tialgrowthinparallelsoftware.Data-intensiveapplicationssuchastransactionprocessingandinformationretrieval,dataminingandanalysisandmultimediaserviceshaveprovidedanewchallengeforthemoderngenerationofparallelplatforms.Emergingareassuchascomputationalbiologyandnanotechnologyhaveimplication

4、sforalgorithmsandsystemsdevelopment,whilechangesinarchitectures,programmingmodelsandapplicationshaveimplicationsforhowparallelplatformsaremadeavailabletousersintheformofgrid-basedservices.Thisbooktakesintoaccountthesenewdevelopmentsaswellascoveringthemoretraditionalproblemsaddressedbyp

5、arallelcomputers.Wherepossibleitemploysanarchitecture-independentviewoftheunderlyingplatformsanddesignsalgorithmsforanabstractmodel.MessagePassingInterface(MPI),POSIXthreadsandOpenMPhavebeenselectedasprogrammingmodelsandtheevolvingapplicationmixofparallelcomputingisreflectedinvariousex

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7、:0-201-64865-2Pages:856CopyrightPearsonEducationPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter1.IntroductiontoParallelComputingSection1.1.MotivatingParallelismSection1.2.ScopeofParallelComputingSection1.3.OrganizationandContentsoftheTextSection1.4.BibliographicRemarksProblemsChapter2.ParallelProgramm