Topics in parallel and distributed computing introducing concurrency in undergraduate courses / edited by Sushil K. Prasad, Anshul Gupta, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Alan Sussman and Charles C. Weems.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam : Elsevier, Morgan Kaufmann, [2015] |
| Description | xxi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Computer Science 2015 [EBCCS15] |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Prasad, Sushil K. |
| Other author/creator | Gupta, Anshul. |
| Other author/creator | Rosenberg, Arnold L. |
| Other author/creator | Sussman, Alan. |
| Other author/creator | Weems, Chip. |
| Contents | 1. Editors' introduction and road map -- Part I. For instructors -- 2. Hands-on parallelism with no prerequisites and little time using scratch -- 3. Parallelism in Python for novices -- 4. Modules for introducing threads -- 5. Introducing parallel and distributed computing concepts in digital logic -- 6. Networks and MPI for cluster computing -- Part 2. For students -- 7. Fork-join parallelism with a data-structures focus -- 8. Shared-memory concurrency control with a data-structures focus -- 9. Parallel computing in a Python-based computer science course -- 10. Parallel programming illustrated through Conway's Game of life. |
| Abstract | "Provides a cross-disciplinary approach for both those learning and those teaching parallel and distributed computing in undergraduate courses."--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015940952 |
| ISBN | 0128038993 |
| ISBN | 9780128038994 |
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