Introduction
James Reinders; Jim Jeffers Intel Corporation, USA
Abstract
This chapter introduces this book written by 73 experts sharing real-world examples and techniques that led to high-performance applications on multicore and many-core system. All chapters reference actual code and the modifications made to the code to improve performance. Codes discussed are freely available for download (http://lotsofcores.com). All the figures and diagrams from the book are available freely as well, to help facilitate teaching of parallel programming.
Keywords
512-bit SIMD
AVX-512
Coarse-grain
Embree
MPI
MPI shared memory
OSPRay
OpenCL
OpenMP
Python
SIMD
TBB
Xeon Phi
Heterogeneous
Hybrid parallelism
In-order
Latency optimizations
Many-core ...
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