An introduction to parallel and vector scientific computing
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An introduction to parallel and vector scientific computing
（Cambridge texts in applied mathematics, 41）
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In this text, students of applied mathematics, science and engineering are introduced to fundamental ways of thinking about the broad context of parallelism. The authors begin by giving the reader a deeper understanding of the issues through a general examination of timing, data dependencies, and communication. These ideas are implemented with respect to shared memory, parallel and vector processing, and distributed memory cluster computing. Threads, OpenMP, and MPI are covered, along with code examples in Fortran, C, and Java. The principles of parallel computation are applied throughout as the authors cover traditional topics in a first course in scientific computing. Building on the fundamentals of floating point representation and numerical error, a thorough treatment of numerical linear algebra and eigenvector/eigenvalue problems is provided. By studying how these algorithms parallelize, the reader is able to explore parallelism inherent in other computations, such as Monte Carlo methods.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Machines and Computation: 1. Introduction - the nature of high performance computation
- 2. Theoretical considerations - complexity
- 3. Machine implementations
- Part II. Linear Systems: 4. Building blocks - floating point numbers and basic linear algebra
- 5. Direct methods for linear systems and LU decomposition
- 6. Direct methods for systems with special structure
- 7. Error analysis and QR decomposition
- 8. Iterative methods for linear systems
- 9. Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Part III. Monte Carlo Methods: 10. Monte Carlo simulation
- 11. Monte Carlo optimization
- Appendix: programming examples.
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