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Parallel computing. From multicores and GPU’s to petascale. Selected papers based on the presentations at the international parallel computing conference (ParCo2009), Lyon, France, September 1–4, 2009. (English) Zbl 1192.68008

Advances in Parallel Computing 19. Amsterdam: IOS Press (ISBN 978-1-60750-529-7/hbk; 978-1-60750-530-3/ebook). xvii, 739 p. (2010).
Publisher’s description: Parallel computing technologies have brought dramatic changes to mainstream computing; the majority of today’s PC’s, laptops and even notebooks incorporate multiprocessor chips with up to four processors. Standard components are increasingly combined with GPU’s (Graphics Processing Unit), originally designed for high-speed graphics processing, and FPGA’s (Free Programmable Gate Array) to build parallel computers with a wide spectrum of high-speed processing functions. The scale of this powerful hardware is limited only by factors such as energy consumption and thermal control. However, in addition to hardware factors, the practical use of petascale and exascale machines is often hampered by the difficulty of developing software which will run effectively and efficiently on such architecture. This book includes selected and refereed papers, presented at the 2009 international Parallel Computing conference (ParCo2009), which set out to address these problems. It provides a snapshot of the state-of-the-art of parallel computing technologies in hardware, application and software development. Areas covered include: numerical algorithms, grid and cloud computing, programming – including GPU and cell programming. The book also includes papers presented at the six mini-symposia held at the conference.
The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.

MSC:

68-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to computer science
68M99 Computer system organization
68N99 Theory of software
65Y05 Parallel numerical computation
68W10 Parallel algorithms in computer science
00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest
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