Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach

Product Description
Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach, Second Edition offers broad coverage of key parallel computing skillsets, including multicore CPU programming and manycore "massively parallel" computing. Using threads, OpenMP, MPI, CUDA and other current tools, the book teaches the design and development of software capable of taking advantage of today’s computing platforms that incorporate CPU and GPU hardware. In addition, it explains how to transition from sequential programming to a parallel computing paradigm. Presenting material refined over more than a decade of teaching parallel computing, author Gerassimos Barlas minimizes the challenge with multiple examples, extensive case studies, and full source code.
By using this book, readers will better understand how to develop programs that run over distributed memory machines using MPI, create multi-threaded applications with either libraries or directives, write optimized applications that balance the workload between available computing resources, and profile and debug programs targeting multicore machines.
Review
Covers both traditional and massively parallel computing, now including a new chapter on concurrent data structures and the latest research on load balancing
From the Back Cover
Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach offers broad coverage of the key parallel computing skillsets: multicore CPU programming and manycore "massively parallel" computing. Using threads, OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, and other current tools it teaches the design and development of software capable of taking advantage of today’s computing platforms incorporating CPU and GPU hardware and explains how to transition from sequential programming to a parallel computing paradigm. Presenting material refined over more than a decade of teaching parallel computing, author Gerassimos Barlas minimizes the challenge with multiple examples, extensive case studies, and full source code. Using this book, readers can develop programs that run over distributed memory machines using MPI, create multi-threaded applications with either libraries or directives, write optimized applications that balance the workload between available computing resources, and profile and debug programs targeting multicore machines.
About the Author
Gerassimos Barlas is a Professor with the Computer Science & Engineering Department, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. His research interest includes parallel algorithms, development, analysis and modeling frameworks for load balancing, and distributed Video on-Demand. Prof. Barlas has taught parallel computing for more than 12 years, has been involved with parallel computing since the early 90s, and is active in the emerging field of Divisible Load Theory for parallel and distributed systems.