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The Art of Concurrency - New From O'Reilly
A Thread Monkey's Guide to Writing Parallel Applications

Sebastopol, CA--If you're looking to take full advantage of multi-core
processors with concurrent programming, "The Art of Concurrency"
(O'Reilly, US $44.99), by Clay Breshears, provides the knowledge and
hands-on experience you need. The book is one of the few resources that
focuses on implementing algorithms in the shared-memory model of multicore
processors, rather than just theoretical models or distributed-memory
architectures. The book provides detailed explanations and usable samples
to help you transform algorithms from serial to parallel code, along with
advice and analysis for avoiding mistakes that programmers typically make
when first attempting these computations.

Written by a senior Intel engineer with over two decades of parallel and
concurrent programming experience, this book will help you:

- Explore differences between programming for shared-memory and
distributed-memory
- Learn guidelines for designing multithreaded applications, including
testing and tuning
- Discover how to make best use of different threading libraries,
including Windows threads, POSIX threads, OpenMP, and Intel Threading
Building Blocks
- Explore how to implement concurrent algorithms that involve sorting,
searching, graphs, and other practical computations

"The Art of Concurrency" shows you how to keep algorithms scalable to take
advantage of new processors with even more cores. For developing parallel
code algorithms and for concurrent programming, this book is essential.

"This is a luscious book that actually delivers on its title. You cannot
teach art, but you can allow the apprentice glimpses of the adept. As
someone who spent 30+ years working for supercomputer companies, and who
has now been an academic for almost 10 years, I can say without question
that this book rings true."
 - Tom Murphy, Computer Science program chair, Contra Costa College

"Finally, a book with a practical focus on concurrency, including many
real-world nontrivial algorithms that are analyzed in ways to improve
performance using parallel programming techniques."
 - Mike Pearce, Parallel Computing Scale Manager, Intel Software Network

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bios, and samples, see:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521530/

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ISBN: 978-0-596-52153-0, 285 pages, US $44.99
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