Computational Technologies

Table of Contents

Title Page Copyright Page List of contributors Preface Introduction 1 Architecture of parallel computing systems

1.1 History of computers 1.2 Architecture of parallel computers

1.2.1 Flynn’s taxonomy of parallel architecture 1.2.2 Address-space organization

1.3 Modern supercomputers 1.4 Multicore computers 1.5 Operating system processes and threads

1.5.1 Processes 1.5.2 Threads

1.6 Programming multi-threaded applications

1.6.1 Multi-threading: pros and cons 1.6.2 Program models

2 Multi-threaded programming

2.1 POSIX threads 2.2 Creating and terminating threads 2.3 Thread life-cycle 2.4 Multi-threaded matrix summation 2.5 Thread synchronization

2.5.1 Semaphore 2.5.2 Mutex

3 Essentials of OpenMP

3.1 OpenMP parallel programming ...