Cloud-based distributed systems such as Facebook, Gmail, Amazon, Salesforce.com and others play an increasingly important role in society. Starting with an overview of modern distributed models, this title exposes the design principles, systems architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, [...]
Since its release in summer 1994, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification has become a standard for message-passing libraries for parallel computations. There exist more than a dozen implementations on a variety of computing platforms, from the IBM SP-2 supercomputer to PCs running Windows[...]
This provides a unified overview of theory, algorithms, and practical software for eigenvalue problems.[...]