Parallel Programming: A New Approach
by Michael H. Coffin (University of Waterloo)
ISBN 0-929306-13-9
1992
300 pages, Paperback
$32.95 (US Dollars)

 Summary    Contents 

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
  • Approaches
  • Outline of the Par Approach
  • An Example
  • Summary
  • Overview
• The Par Programming Language
  • Sequential Programming
  • Declaration and Types
  • Representations
  • Records
  • Resources
  • References
  • Operations
  • Concurrency
  • Distributed Data Structures
  • Annotations
• Regular Problems
  • Matrix Addition
  • Trapezoidal Integration
  • Matrix Multiplication
  • Region Labeling
  • Gaussian Elimination
  • Sorting
  • Summary
• Irregular Problems
  • Trapezoidal Integration
  • Primality Testing
  • Another Algorithm for Primality Testing
  • A Parallel Spreadsheet
  • Adaptive Quadrature
  • Summary
• Implementing Par
  • Overview
  • Compiling Par Programs
  • An Example
  • Summary
• Related Work
  • Parallelizing Compilers
  • Declarative Programming Languages
  • Distributed Programming Languages
  • Simulating Shared Memory
  • Paralations
  • Futures
  • Generative Communication
  • Shared Data Objects
  • Annotating Programs
• Conclusions
  • Summary
  • Application to Other Languages
• References
• Index