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Designing and Building Parallel Programs: Concepts and Tools for Parallel Software Engineering (Paperback)

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This book introduces the parallel paradigm, and shows how parallel programming is carried out using a variety of programming languages. Foster details actual applications examples from engineering, science, and finance while keeping the focus throughout on parallel programming as opposed to algorithm development.

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Paperback: 430 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley (February 10, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201575949
ISBN-13: 978-0201575941
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #478,935 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP by Michael Quinn on page 90, and Back Matter
Scientific Engineering for Distributed Java Applications: International Workshop, FIDJI 2002, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, November 28-29, 2002, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Nicolas Guelfi on page 48
Parallel Computation: 4th International ACPC Conference Including Special Tracks on Parallel Numerics (ParNum'99) and Parallel Computing in Image Processing, ... Notes in Computer Science) (v. 1557) by Peter Zinterhof on page 245
Models for Parallel and Distributed Computation: Theory, Algorithmic Techniques and Applications (Applied Optimization) by R. Correa on page 199
Handbook of Parallel Computing and Statistics (Statistics, Textbooks and Monographs) by Erricos John Kontoghiorghes on page 306

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5.0 out of 5 stars Book available online, and was recommended by a known guru, December 3, 2007

By	D. S. Bakin (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book was recommended on the beowulf@beowulf.org mailing list. They pointed out the book's site - with the book online - is at http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp/ - so you can check it out and then buy a copy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book for beginners, October 16, 1998

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A good book for people new to parallel concepts. Good discussion of parallel concepts and current parallel tools. Easy to read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars good book, October 9, 2003

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It is one of the books I love. It is easy to read and provide a good background about parallel programs' design.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Libro de texto
El libro est� muy bien como libro de texto de alguna asignatura de software paralelo. Est� dividido en dos partes, teoria, y herramientas. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 stars Well worth reading
I enjoyed this book a great deal. The concepts and rational for parallel design are well covered.

Published on October 5, 1999

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