Distributed and Parallel Processing

This page contains additional resources related to the Distributed and Parallel Processing course.

• Parallel Patterns (from Dr. Dobbs, 31 December 2008).
• Programming on Parallel Machines, Norman Matloff, University of California, Davis (a freely available textbook on parallel programming).
• CSP Resources:
  • Communicating Sequential Processes, C. A. R. Hoare (2004); released into the public domain.
  • Introduction to the Programming Language occam, Daniel C. Hyde, Bucknell University (1995).
  • JCSP Notes:
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3
  • Formal Analysis of Concurrent Java Systems, Peter H. Welch and Jeremy M.R. Martin, Communicating Process Architectures 2000, Eds. P.H. Welch and A.W.P. Bakkers, IOS Press (2000).
• System V IPC: a good guide to the System V IPC facilities by Scott Burkett (online).
• OpenMP Resources:
  • Wikipedia article on OpenMP (online).
  • Intro to OpenMP by Intel (online).
  • OpenMP Guide by Joel Yliluoma (online).
• IBM TSpaces website (online).
• Using Java and Linda for Parallel Processing in Bioinformatics for Simplicity, Power and Portability, George Wells and Tim Akhurst, Proc. IPSI-2005 USA, International Conference on Advances in the Internet, Processing, Systems, and Interdisciplinary Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2005).
• Related news items:
  • Supercomputing's Exaflop Target — article from Comm. ACM (August 2011).
  • Africa's most powerful supercomputer — article on the new Sun supercomputer at the CHPC (September 2009).
  • Multicore chip announcements: HPC Wire and EE Times (August 2009).