Editors:
- Over 400 entries covering key concepts and terms in the broad field of parallel computing
- A-Z organization allows easy, intuitive access for professionals and researchers in various aspects of computing
- Extensive cross-references support efficient, user-friendly searches
- All entries have been written and peer-reviewed by international leading researchers
- Broad cover of topic for easy application of topics in related CS areas
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (796 entries)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Containing over 300 entries in an A-Z format, the Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing provides easy, intuitive access to relevant information for professionals and researchers seeking access to any aspect within the broad field of parallel computing. Topics for this comprehensive reference were selected, written, and peer-reviewed by an international pool of distinguished researchers in the field. The Encyclopedia is broad in scope, covering machine organization, programming languages, algorithms, and applications. Within each area, concepts, designs, and specific implementations are presented. The highly-structured essays in this work comprise synonyms, a definition and discussion of the topic, bibliographies, and links to related literature. Extensive cross-references to other entries within the Encyclopedia support efficient, user-friendly searchers for immediate access to useful information.
 Key concepts presented in the Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing include; laws and metrics; specific numerical and non-numerical algorithms; asynchronous algorithms; libraries of subroutines; benchmark suites; applications; sequential consistency and cache coherency; machine classes such as clusters, shared-memory multiprocessors, special-purpose machines and dataflow machines; specific machines such as Cray supercomputers, IBM’s cell processor and Intel’s multicore machines; race detection and auto parallelization; parallel programming languages, synchronization primitives, collective operations, message passing libraries, checkpointing, and operating systems.Â
 Topics covered: Speedup, Efficiency, Isoefficiency, Redundancy, Amdahls law, Computer Architecture Concepts, Parallel Machine Designs, Benmarks, Parallel Programming concepts & design, Algorithms, Parallel applications.
 This authoritative reference will be published in two formats: print and online. The online edition features hyperlinks to cross-references and to additional significant research.
 Related Subjects: supercomputing, high-performance computing, distributed computing
Keywords
- (parallel) benchmark suites
- (parallel) Numeric algorithms
- (parallel) algorithms
- (parallel) computer architecture
- (parallel) performance laws
- (parallel) program performance metrics
- (parallel) program tuning
- (parallel) programming languages
- PGAS languages
- applications of parallel computing
- autoparallelization
- collective operations
- compilers for parallelism
- determinacy
- exascale computing
- high-performance computing
- inter-processor communication networks
- interconnection networks
- manycores
- multicores
- race detection
- supercomputing
- synchronization
- theory of parallel computing
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
David Padua
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing
Editors: David Padua
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Reference Module Computer Science and Engineering
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-09765-7Published: 08 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-09766-4Published: 08 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 2175
Number of Illustrations: 880 b/w illustrations
Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Processor Architectures, System Performance and Evaluation, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems