In this text, students of applied mathematics, science and engineering are introduced to fundamental ways of thinking about the broad context of parallelism. The authors begin by giving the reader a deeper understanding of the issues through a general examination of timing, data dependencies, and co
An introduction to parallel and vector scientific computing
β Scribed by Ronald W Shonkwiler; L Lefton
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 306
- Series
- Cambridge texts in applied mathematics
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content: Part I. Machines and Computation: 1. Introduction - the nature of high performance computation; 2. Theoretical considerations - complexity; 3. Machine implementations; Part II. Linear Systems: 4. Building blocks - floating point numbers and basic linear algebra; 5. Direct methods for linear systems and LU decomposition; 6. Direct methods for systems with special structure; 7. Error analysis and QR decomposition; 8. Iterative methods for linear systems; 9. Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Part III. Monte Carlo Methods: 10. Monte Carlo simulation; 11. Monte Carlo optimization; Appendix: programming examples.
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In this text, students of applied mathematics, science and engineering are introduced to fundamental ways of thinking about the broad context of parallelism. The authors begin by giving the reader a deeper understanding of the issues through a general examination of timing, data dependencies, and co
This book introduces the basic concepts of parallel and vector computing in the context of an introduction to numerical methods. It contains chapters on parallel and vector matrix multiplication and solution of linear systems by direct and iterative methods. It is suitable for advanced undergradua