From: eugene@cse.ucsc.edu (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Book about parallel computing
Date: 21 Sep 1998 20:08:13 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Approved: eugene@george.arc.nasa.gov
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In article <6u0m6u$cpf$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu>,
Bill Maniatty  <maniattb@cs.rpi.edu> wrote:
>Gunnar Lindholm wrote:
>> I'm a student that is very interested in parallel computing.  Could
>> some one tell me if there is any good book (perhaps introductory book)
>> about high performance computing?
>
>It depends on if you are focusing on algorithms or on architectural
>features....
>to check out:
>
>@Book{Almasi:Gottlieb:1994,
>        author =        "Almasi, George and Gottlieb, Allan",
>        title =         "Highly Parallel Computing",
>        publisher =     "Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc.",
>        year =          1994,
>        notes =         "Second Edition"
>}
>
>Although it is becoming a bit aged, it is pretty accessible and
>covers some important architectural issues.
>Additionally Eugene Miya maintains a reading list for parallel
>computationalists which can be found at:
>	http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/faqs/reading-list-top-10
>(Which cites Almasi and Gottlieb).

The suggested reading list is posted on the 24th of every month (panel 24).
So if you don't seee panel 24, either your net connect needs beefing
or my machine was down for the day at that time.
It gets updated when a yearly change happens.  I'll add Bill's
endorsement to the list of people making a nod in Allan and George's text.

Panel 14 is a general pointer to biblios.  I had two summer students
work on mine (still tons of work to do), so a big update will is
happening shortly (like I added ICPP98 and ICDCS97, but not ICDCS98).
I think the last update was end of June just before
my last visit to Microsoft and Tera.  I'm real busy right now,
so I can't say a lot.

I would not say that we have any "good" books [we have a long way to go
to something like The Art of Computer Programming, and it's
incompleteness speaks volumes about our field].  But we have some
pretty fair books.

Bill pretty much sums up my opinion of Allan's book.

If the field were easy, it would have all been done by now right?

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