by John E. West, for HPCwire
Parallel Algorithms by Henri Casanova, Arnaud Legrand, and Yves Robert (CRC Press, 2009) is a text meant for those with a desire to understand the theoretical underpinnings of parallelism from a computer science perspective. As the authors themselves point out, this is not a high performance computing book — there is no real attention given to HPC architectures or practical scientific computing. You also won’t leave this book a competent parallel programmer ready to implement an application. But you will have the tools you need to continue on a rigorous research track into the computer science aspects of parallel computing.


