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Overview
In this volume, designed for computational scientists and engineers working on applications requiring the memories and processing rates of large-scale parallelism, leading algorithmicists survey their own field-defining contributions, together with enough historical and bibliographical perspective to permit working one's way to the frontiers. This book is distinguished from earlier surveys in parallel numerical algorithms by its extension of coverage beyond core linear algebraic methods into tools more directly associated with partial differential and integral equations - though still with an appealing generality - and by its focus on practical medium-granularity parallelism, approachable through traditional programming languages. Several of the authors used their invitation to participate as a chance to stand back and create a unified overview, which nonspecialists will appreciate.Synopsis
In this volume, designed for computational scientists and engineers working on applications requiring the memories and processing rates of large-scale parallelism, leading algorithmicists survey their own field-defining contributions, together with enough historical and bibliographical perspective to permit working one's way to the frontiers.
This book is distinguished from earlier surveys in parallel numerical algorithms by its extension of coverage beyond core linear algebraic methods into tools more directly associated with partial differential and integral equations - though still with an appealing generality - and by its focus on practical medium-granularity parallelism, approachable through traditional programming languages.
Several of the authors used their invitation to participate as a chance to stand back and create a unified overview, which nonspecialists will appreciate.
Booknews
Contains papers from a May 1994 workshop held in Hampton, Virginia, surveying recent developments in the field. Coverage includes core linear algebraic methods as well as tools more directly associated with partial differential and integral equations, with a focus on practical medium-granularity parallelism. Contains sections on linear systems, preconditioning, fast applications of operators, and parallel tools, environments, and benchmarking, with papers on parallel multigrid methods, parallel FFTs, and performance debugging for parallel computers. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.