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Lectures on Parallel Computing

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  • Sep 2025
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Authors:
  1. Jesper Larsson Träff

    1. Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria

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  • Suitable text for undergraduate courses, and reference for graduate students and professionals
  • Author highly experienced researcher and lecturer, book content class-tested over many years
  • Many code examples in C, and extensive exercises suitable for self-study and projects

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 14600)

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About this book

This textbook is intended for an undergraduate course on the fundamentals of parallel computing or as a background and reference for graduate courses on high-performance computing, shared-memory multiprocessor programming, or parallel algorithms.

The author introduces theoretical concepts and tools for expressing, analyzing, and assessing parallel algorithms, and covers in detail the two most widely used concrete frameworks, OpenMP and MPI, plus the threading interface pthreads for writing parallel programs for either shared or distributed memory parallel computers with an emphasis on general concepts and principles. Code examples are given in a C-like style, and the extensive exercises can be used for self-study and as inspiration for small implementation projects in OpenMP and MPI.

The book is appropriate for students and professionals engaged in all aspects of parallel computing.

 

Keywords

  • Parallel Computing
  • Distributed Computing
  • Concurrency
  • OpenMP
  • Pipeline Parallelism
  • Multicore Systems
  • PRAM Model
  • pthreads
  • Cilk
  • Memory Models
  • MPI

Authors and Affiliations

  • Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria

    Jesper Larsson Träff

About the author

Jesper Träff has a Master's in Computer Science and Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen. He worked at the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, and TU München. After completing his habilitation at the University of Copenhagen, he was scientific coordinator for the EU FP7 project PEPPHER. He was Professor for Scientific Computing at the University of Vienna, he is now Professor for Parallel Computing at TU Wien.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lectures on Parallel Computing

  • Authors: Jesper Larsson Träff

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-86577-0Due: 01 October 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-86578-7Due: 01 October 2025

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

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