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Summary: Excellent book on modern computing power
Review: Explains very nicely and precisely the HW fundamentals of the multiprocessors, memory, insights in software and optimization concepts. Very much useful for not to get confused by the buzzwords in the industry. Good book for both the engineers and the sales people.
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Summary: What I think of this High Performance Computing book
Review: Hello all - thanks for looking at my book. This is an excellent book for both computer scientists and non-computer scientists. In many ways high performance computing is moving from a research area to an applications area. Chemists, mechanical engineers, stockbrokers, airlines, and many more regularly use high performance computing in their science or business. This book could also be titled, "The Dummy's Guide to High Performance Computing" because it is written so that any reasonably computer knowledgeable person can learn from it. It focuses on straightforward examples of the current technology used to gain the maximum performance out of the largest and smallest computers. In addition to showing you how to program for maximum speed, the book also looks at how high performance computers are put together. I feel that this is a fascinating topic even if you don't have a job in which you do fluid dynamics computations all day long.
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Summary: Anybody work in numerical analysis can't miss this book.
Review: It is an excellent book I have read. It includes the latest state of art IA-64 architure, RISC, compiler ...
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Summary: very clear explanation of otherwise hard to grip concepts.
Review: Materials covered in certain chapters are equivalent to a one semester class at MIT.. though in less detail, the lucid explanation of the fundamental concepts are impressive.. this book is a very good start for someone who has never touched the subject of Parallel Computing before.
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Summary: very clear explanation of otherwise hard to grip concepts.
Review: Materials covered in certain chapters are equivalent to a one semester class at MIT.. though in less detail, the lucid explanation of the fundamental concepts are impressive.. this book is a very good start for someone who has never touched the subject of Parallel Computing before.
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Summary: Knowledge of software+hardware makes a complete programmer
Review: This book provides great insight into the _performance_ of hardware. How can one be a good programmer without knowing how it is that data gets to memory, how data flows through the CPU and what it is in the hardware that makes ones code fast or slow? It amazes me that most of the developers that I work with are ignorant or could not care less about the effects of cache misses, what superscalar/superpipelined really means, and how a "improper" stride through their array can make the performance of their code deplorable. This book makes for a great read and is guaranteed to make a programmer a better programmer.
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