Highly Parallel Computation

Highly Parallel Computing

This second edition includes new exercises for each chapter, a quantitative treatment of speedup, seismic migration, using a workstation network as a parallel computer, recent changes in technology, more languages, fat trees, wormhole switching, new SIMD hardware, an expanded section on CM-2, new MIMD hardware, using workstation clusters as a MIMD system, and directory based caches. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Highly Parallel Computation

Highly parallel computing architectures are the only means to achieve the computation rates demanded by advanced scientific problems. A decade of research has demonstrated the feasibility of such machines and current research focuses on which architectures designated as multiple instruction multiple datastream (MIMD) and single instruction multiple datastream (SIMD) have produced the best results to date; neither shows a decisive advantage for most near-homogeneous scientific problems. For scientific problems with many dissimilar parts, more speculative architectures such as neural networks or data flow may be needed. Denning, Peter J. and Tichy, Walter F. Unspecified Center NCC2-387...

Highly Parallel Computation