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The only book covering both traditional and massively parallel computing

Table of Contents

1 Introduction2 Multicore and Parallel Program Design3 Shared-memory programming: Threads4 Shared-memory programming: OpenMP5 Distributed memory programming6 GPU Programming7 The Thrust Template Library8 Load BalancingA Compiling Qt programsB RunningMPI Programs: Preparatory and Configuration StepsC Time MeasurementD Boost.MPIE Setting up CUDAF DLTlib

About the Author

Gerassimos Barlas is a Professor with the Computer Science & Engineering Department, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. His research interest includes parallel algorithms, development, analysis and modeling frameworks for load balancing, and distributed Video on-Demand. Prof. Barlas has taught parallel computing for more than 12 years, has been involved with parallel computing since the early 90s, and is active in the emerging field of Divisible Load Theory for parallel and distributed systems.