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This book introduces beginning undergraduate students of computing and computational disciplines to modern parallel and distributed programming languages and environments, including map-reduce, general-purpose graphics processing units (GPUs), and graphical user interfaces (GUI) for mobile applications. The book also guides instructors via selected essays on what and how to introduce parallel and distributed computing topics into the undergraduate curricula, including quality criteria for para...

Software agents situated in the same environment typically need to interact with one another in order to fulfill their objectives or improve their performance. Coalition formation is a fundamental form of interaction that has proven to be useful in a number of scenarios, including: sensor networks e-commerce distributed vehicle routing Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent systems. Central to this endeavour is the problem of determining wh...

The advent of multicore processors has renewed interest in the idea of incorporating transactions into the programming model used to write parallel programs.This approach, known as transactional memory, offers an alternative, and hopefully better, way to coordinate concurrent threads. The ACI (atomicity, consistency, isolation) properties of transactions provide a foundation to ensure that concurrent reads and writes of shared data do not produce inconsistent or incorrect results. At a higher le...

Molecular dynamics is a well-established technique for simulating complex many-particle systems in many areas of physics, chemistry, and astrophysics. The huge computational requirements for simulations of large systems, especially with long-range forces, demand the use of massively parallel computers. Designing efficient algorithms for these problems is a highly non-trivial task.This book contains the invited talks and abstracts presented at a conference by more than 100 researchers from variou...

Computer programmers (and students learning to become programmers) now need to have a wide range of experience of different languages and programming 'paradigms'. In this book the authors survey many of the major programming languages by comparing and contrasting the essential concepts underlying each type of language.

Heterogeneous Computing Architectures: Challenges and Vision provides an updated vision of the state-of-the-art of heterogeneous computing systems, covering all the aspects related to their design: from the architecture and programming models to hardware/software integration and orchestration to real-time and security requirements. The transitions from multicore processors, GPU computing, and Cloud computing are not separate trends, but aspects of a single trend-mainstream; computers from deskto...

High Performance Deformable Image Registration Algorithms for Manycore Processors develops highly data-parallel image registration algorithms suitable for use on modern multi-core architectures, including graphics processing units (GPUs). Focusing on deformable registration, we show how to develop data-parallel versions of the registration algorithm suitable for execution on the GPU. Image registration is the process of aligning two or more images into a common coordinate frame and is a fundamen...

Multicore microprocessors are now at the heart of nearly all desktop and laptop computers. While these chips offer exciting opportunities for the creation of newer and faster applications, they also challenge students and educators. How can the new generation of computer scientists growing up with multicore chips learn to program applications that exploit this latent processing power? This unique book is an attempt to introduce concurrent programming to first-year computer science students, much...

Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing (GCC'19) held July 29th - August 1st, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Write code that scales across CPU registers, multi-core, and machine clustersKey FeaturesExplore concurrent programming in C++Identify memory management problemsUse SIMD and STL containers for performance improvementBook DescriptionC++ is a highly portable language and can be used to write both large-scale applications and performance-critical code. It has evolved over the last few years to become a modern and expressive language. This book will guide you through optimizing the performance of yo...

Learn when and how to use Clojure's polymorphic features to develop efficient multithreaded applications Key Features • Get to grips with the different polymorphic tools that Clojure offers • Develop a taste for good Clojure designs through various engaging examples • Study various design principles and learn ways to use them in your applications Book Description Clojure is a modern, dynamic language that you can use to develop robust, multithreaded programs. Clojure Polymorphism is a compre...

Description Functional languages help developers support concurrency by encouraging immutable data structures that can be passed between threads without having to worry about a shared state, all while avoiding side effects.   Functional Concurrency in .NET teaches readers how to build concurrent and scalable programs in .NET using the functional paradigm. This intermediate-level guide is aimed at developers, architects, and passionate computer programmers.   Key Features • In-depth e...

Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks development. Learn how to exploit the parallelism in your computer's GPU and leverage cluste...

High Performance Parallelism Pearls Volume 2 offers another set of examples that demonstrate how to leverage parallelism. Similar to Volume 1, the techniques included here explain how to use processors and coprocessors with the same programming – illustrating the most effective ways to combine Xeon Phi coprocessors with Xeon and other multicore processors. The book includes examples of successful programming efforts, drawn from across industries and domains such as biomed, genetics, finance, man...

This bok employs a tutorial approach to guide the reader through the programming of real-time and distributed fault-tolerant systems. Written by experts in the field, this practically-oriented bok shows how the use of ERLANG results in modular systems which are easy to specify, design and test.