UPC: Distributed Shared-Memory Programming

Description:

This is the first book to explain the language Unified Parallel C and its use. Authors El-Ghazawi, Carlson, and Sterling are among the developers of UPC, with close links with the industrial members of the UPC consortium. Their text covers background material on parallel architectures and algorithms, and includes UPC programming case studies. This book represents an invaluable resource for the growing number of UPC users and applications developers. More information about UPC can be found at: http://upc.gwu.edu/

Table of Contents:

Preface.

1. An Introductory Tutorial.

2. Programming View and UPC Data Types.

3. Pointers and Arrays.

4. Work Sharing and Domain Decomposition.

5. Dynamic Shared Memory Allocation.

6. Synchronization and Memory Consistency.

7. Performance Tuning and Optimization.

8. UPC Libraries.

References.

Appendix A: UPC Language Specifications v1.1.1.

Appendix B: UPC Collective Operations Specifications, v1.0.

Appendix C: UPC-IO Specifications, v1.0.

Appendix D: How to Complile and Run UPC Programs.

Appendix E: Quick UPC Reference.

Index.

描述：
這是第一本介紹統一並行C語言及其使用的書籍。作者El-Ghazawi、Carlson和Sterling是UPC的開發者之一，與UPC聯盟的工業成員有密切聯繫。他們的書籍涵蓋了並行架構和算法的背景材料，並包括UPC編程案例研究。這本書對於越來越多的UPC用戶和應用程序開發人員來說是一個寶貴的資源。有關UPC的更多信息可以在以下網址找到：http://upc.gwu.edu/

目錄：
前言。
1. 入門教程。
2. 編程視圖和UPC數據類型。
3. 指針和數組。
4. 工作共享和域分解。
5. 動態共享內存分配。
6. 同步和內存一致性。
7. 性能調優和優化。
8. UPC庫。
參考文獻。
附錄A：UPC語言規範v1.1.1。
附錄B：UPC集體操作規範v1.0。
附錄C：UPC-IO規範v1.0。
附錄D：如何編譯和運行UPC程序。
附錄E：快速UPC參考。
索引。