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Barbara Chapman
Computer Science at the University of Houston.
Gabriele Jost
Principal Member of Technical Staff,
Application Server Performance Engineering, Oracle, Inc.
Ruud van der Pas
Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park.
"I hope that readers will learn to use the full
expressibility and power of OpenMP. This book should provide an
excellent introduction to beginners, and the performance section should
help those with some experience who want to push OpenMP to its limits."
--from the foreword by David J. Kuck, Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group, and Director, Parallel and Distributed Solutions, Intel Corporation
OpenMP, a portable programming interface for shared memory parallel
computers, was adopted as an informal standard in 1997 by computer
scientists who wanted a unified model on which to base programs for
shared memory systems. OpenMP is now used by many software developers;
it offers significant advantages over both hand-threading and MPI.
Using OpenMP offers a comprehensive introduction to parallel
programming concepts and a detailed overview of OpenMP.
Using OpenMP discusses hardware developments, describes where
OpenMP is applicable, and compares OpenMP to other programming
interfaces for shared and distributed memory parallel architectures. It
introduces the individual features of OpenMP, provides many source code
examples that demonstrate the use and functionality of the language
constructs, and offers tips on writing an efficient OpenMP program. It
describes how to use OpenMP in full-scale applications to achieve high
performance on large-scale architectures, discussing several case
studies in detail, and offers in-depth troubleshooting advice. It
explains how OpenMP is translated into explicitly multithreaded code,
providing a valuable behind-the-scenes account of OpenMP program
performance. Finally, Using OpenMP considers trends likely to
influence OpenMP development, offering a glimpse of the possibilities
of a future OpenMP 3.0 from the vantage point of the current OpenMP
2.5.
With multicore computer use increasing, the need for a comprehensive
introduction and overview of the standard interface is clear. Using OpenMP
provides an essential reference not only for students at both
undergraduate and graduate levels but also for professionals who intend
to parallelize existing codes or develop new parallel programs for
shared memory computer architectures.
Table of Content and Sample Chapters
Publisher:
MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu
Buy the Book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11387
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