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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!fpst
- From: Stephen Vavasis <vavasis@cs.cornell.EDU>
- Subject: looking for textbook
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.175828.26184@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Apparently-To: comp-parallel@eddie.mit.edu
- Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:15:30 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- I need to select a textbook for a new course this spring at Cornell,
- "Parallel Scientific Computing." We are planning to use some of the
- machines here including:
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- (1) SIMD: Connection Machine CM-200
- (2) MIMD, tightly coupled: Intel iPSC
- (3) MIMD, loosely coupled: network of IBM RS6000's
- (4) shared memory: Kendall Square KSR-1
-
- I am hoping to cover these architecture paradigms. I am also hoping
- to cover associated programming paradigms, for instance, FORTRAN-90
- for the CM-200.
-
- Then I am hoping to cover scientific algorithms for parallel computing
- (and specifically for the machines above) including linear algebra,
- systems of particles, boundary value problems, and perhaps some global
- climate modeling. In the process we will hit the paradigms for
- parallel programming, such as load balancing and minimizing
- communication.
-
- I would be interested in suggestions for textbooks that cover this
- material, especially from people who have taught a course like this
- before.
-
- Thanks,
- Steve Vavasis (vavasis@cs.cornell.edu)
-
-