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Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks
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ALEXEY L. LASTOVETSKY, PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University College, Dublin. Previously, he was a senior member of the technical staff at Iona Technologies, Ireland, and has also held appointments at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow State University.
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Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART I. EVOLUTION OF PARALLEL COMPUTING.

Serial Scalar Processor.

Vector and Superscalar Processors.

Shared Memory Multiprocessors.

Distributed Memory Multiprocessors.

Networks of Computers: Architecture and Programming Challenges.

PART II. PARALLEL PROGRAMMING FOR NETWORKS OF COMPUTERS WITH MPC AND HMPI.

Introduction to mpC.

Advanced Heterogeneous Parallel Programming in mpC.

Toward a Message-Passing Library for Heterogeneous Networks of Computers.

PART III. APPLICATIONS OF HETEROGENEOUS PARALLEL COMPUTING.

Scientific Applications.

Business and Software Engineering Applications.

Appendix A: The mpCN-Body Application. 

Appendix B: The Block Cyclic Matrix Multiplication Routine for Heterogeneneous Platforms.

Appendix C: The Parallel Adaptive Quadrature Routine.

Appendix D: The mpC User's Guide.

Bibliography.

Index.

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"If you're looking for solutions for numerical programming on networks of computers, then…[this] is the book for you…one of the book's greatest strengths is its simplicity…moves smoothly from one topic to the next." (IEEE Distributed Systems Online, November 2004)
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