Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers, Second Edition / Edition 2

by Georg Hager, Gerhard Wellein

Overview

This book is a well-recognized and leading guidebook on High Performance Computing for a broad audience of readers from industry and academia. The new edition is completely reorganized and updated to include the latest research in HPC. A new introductory chapter and a new chapter on accelerated computing have been added to the book to keep pace with recent advances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781482252934
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2026
Series:	Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science
Edition description:	New
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction. Modern general-purpose processors. Basic optimization techniques for serial code. Parallel computers. Basics of parallelization. Shared-memory parallel programming with OpenMP. Node-level performance engineering. Efficient OpenMP programming. Locality optimizations on ccNUMA architectures. Distributed-memory parallel programming with MPI. Efficient MPI programming. Hybrid parallelization with MPI and OpenMP. Accelerated computing. Appendix: The LIKWID tool suite.