Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: clement@leopard.cs.byu.edu (Mark Clement)
Subject: Re: Good Text Book
Organization: Laboratory for Applied Logic, Brigham Young University
Date: 9 Oct 1995 15:17:23 GMT
Message-ID: <45bee3$201@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

I have been using Parallel Computing: Theory and Practice, Michael J.
Quinn this semester in a graduate parallel programming class.  It has
a nice mix of theoretical topological hardware concepts, programming
languages and parallel algorithms.  Most of the material is
understandable by the students if they take some time in reading it
and I have developed labs that give them experience under PVM to
illustrate the programming concepts.  There are still things that I
would change, but I like it better than other books that could be used
for a self-contained graduate parallel class.

In article <449934$aip@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, dbatten@postoffice.ptd.com (Dean Batten) writes:
> In article <43ukm0$44j@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, Phil Dickens
> <pmd@.cs.virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I am going to be teaching a graduate course in parallel computing this
> > spring and would like to choose a new textbook for the course (I was
> > using Lester's book "The Art of Parallel Programming" for a combined
> > undergrad and grad class, but it is too simple to use for a graduate
> > class). I would appreciate any pointers to good books on parallel
> > computing/programming. 
> 
> I can't make any good suggestions, but I'd like to know what you end up
> with. The || programming classes I've had have used a mishmash of
> material.

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