Applications of Parallel Computers : References

The following list is by no means complete. Please suggest references on the class wiki!

Other classes

• Berkeley CS 267: Applications of Parallel Computers
• MIT 18.337: Parallel Computing
• UIUC CS 554: Parallel Numerical Algorithms

C programming

• Kernighan and Ritchie, The C Programming Language -- if you want to have on book on C programming on your shelf, this should probably be it.

Serial architecture and tuning

• Patterson and Hennessey, Computer Organization and Design and Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach -- classic undergraduate and graduate texts in computer architecture. If you want a good understanding of cache architecture, there are much worce places to start.
• Goedecker and Hoisie, Performance Optimization of Numerically Intensive Codes -- A good short introduction to understanding performance and tuning. Most of the examples are in Fortran.

Automated tuning

• ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Subroutines) is a package that automatically generates efficient BLAS libraries. Clint Whaley's papers on ATLAS have some pretty good information about tuning.
• FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) is an automatically-generated cache-oblivious high-performance Fourier transform code.