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Subject:    Re: [Beowulf] Recommended paper for parallel sorting?
From:       "Robert G. Brown" <rgb () phy ! duke ! edu>
Date:       2007-12-03 18:38:12
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0712031337340.11771 () lilith ! rgb ! private ! net
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Peter St. John wrote:

> (re Ian Foster, *Designing and Building Parallel Programs *online as below
> or Addison Wesley):
> 
> I did that search and right the top was this link, which looks like homebase
> for the original material:
> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp/
> Very cool, thanks RGB for what looks like toothsome book.

I went ahead and bought a paper copy, but it is nice to be able to
access the material from a workstation because I don't carry the copy
around with me all the time...;-)

   rgb

> Peter
> 
> On Dec 3, 2007 9:09 AM, Robert G. Brown <rgb@phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Nelson Castillo wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > Could you please recommend a paper for reading? I'd like to know about
> > parallel
> > > sorting algorithms for this architecture.
> > 
> > You might check out Ian Foster's free online book on parallel
> > algorithms.  It is worth buying if you're going to be doing a lot of
> > parallel programming.  Or there are two or three other decent textbooks
> > on parallel programming at the algorithm level.  I don't recall offhand
> > if Foster covers sorting, but you can easily found out for free.
> > 
> > Remember, GIYF here -- just enter search strings like "Foster Parallel
> > Programming" to find his book, "Parallel Sorting Algorithms" or the like
> > too see if there is anything out there on the web.
> > 
> > rgb
> > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Nelson.-
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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