Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and - Engineers, Second Editio

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.

List 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.

Summary

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

• Authors: Georg Hager, Georg (University of Erlangen Nuremberg Hager, Georg Wellein Hager, Hager Georg, Gerhard Wellein, Wellein Gerhard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 05.01.2026
• EAN: 9781482252934
• ISBN: 978-1-4822-5293-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science; Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics; COMPUTERS / General, MATHEMATICS / General, MATHEMATICS / Number Systems, COMPUTERS / Programming / Games, Mathematics, Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, Systems analysis & design, Programming & scripting languages: general, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques, Programming and scripting languages: general, Systems analysis and design