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Title: Software Optimization for High Performance Computing: Creating Faster Applications by Isom Crawford, Kevin Wadleigh ISBN: 0-13-017008-9 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Not well written
Comment: I don't wish to offend the authors of this book, who I am sure are experts in this field. However, I found this book to be unnecessarily difficult to read.

The the book presents inherently complex material, which testifies to the proficiency of the authors. However, it was often not clear what point the authors were trying to make, especially regarding graphs which lacked clear explanations. Often I had to to re-read an entry several times before I understood what the authors were trying to express.

I am sure the book contains a wealth of valuable information (which is why I ordered it), but I personally was unwilling to invest the time and energy necessary to fathom the authors intent.

I am a systems engineer for an international telecom company.

Rating: 5
Summary: A great book for computational scientists and engineers
Comment: I am a physics graduate student and taking a graduate course on programming parallel machines. This course is offered by an electrical and computer engineering professor at our university.

This course covers computer architectures (SMP, NUMA, et al.), theory on parallelism, OpenMP, MPI, Pthreads, and various research tools. I found this book by Drs. Wadleigh and Crawford very helpful for me to go through the entire semester.

This book follows three important core issues on high performance computing. Part I includes hardware overview and basic parallel programming methodologies. I found this part help me a lot to catch the backgrounds that I don't previously have. Part II deals with several issues on software techniques. Part II lists the tools, algorithms, and applications such as LAPACK, and fast Fourier transform.

I would highly recommend this book to scientists and engineers in the areas of computational science and engineering applications. I am so glad that our physics library has ordered and placed this book on the new bookshelf.

Written by sjtu from computational neutrino physics and geometric probability research group.

Rating: 5
Summary: good reference: RISC & EPIC system high-end performance
Comment: Wadleigh and Crawford have collected, organized, and presented a great deal of useful information for anyone who wants to obtain high-end performance on modern, high-end computer systems. I appreciate how the book explains and compares the approaches of various computer vendors in high-end systems, providing some historical context along the way. Along with explanations, the authors have included numerous, relevant examples (high-level & assembly source, tables of test results) to illustrate the key factors that contribute to application performance.

I think this book could easily be made into, or used with, a short course/overview on high performance computing.

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