Scalable Parallel Computing: Technology, Architecture, Programming | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kai Hwang, Zhiwei Xu
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1436551
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 832
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.7 x 1.4
ISBN: 0070317984
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.358
EAN: 9780070317987
Publication Date: February 1, 1998
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Product Description
This comprehensive reference from distinguished authors covers the principles, technology, architecture, and programming issues in parallel and distributed computing. From the essential enabling technologies to modern SMP and NUMA multi-processor clusters, it's all here for computer scientists and engineers.
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 Very interesting conceptual basis, but September 10, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The information provided in this book are a bit out of date, the description way to light harted, no pictures of the physical arrangement of the physical implementation are provided.
Most of the graphics and graphs are of appaling quality.
The web references--even the updated ones on the first autors home-page--are out of date.Don't get me wrong: I learned a lot about computer architecture from Prof. Hwang's other books way back in the eighties, this one has a very interesting conceptual basis but is lacking on needed detail. You can learn a lot from this book, but you need the whole of the web to supplement it; for this the price is way over the top.
 Scalable Parallel Rubbish November 24, 2000
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
The only reason to buy this book is under force. Aka taking a course where this book is mandatory. Its ill planned, ill conceived and not organized in a proper way.
Useless opus May 3, 2000
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is the worst book that I ever read. The authors did not even bothered to proofread it. One would think that people writing on the subject of system architecture will be organizing the material logically. Not these two clowns. The only reason you might want to spend your hard-earned money is if you are under the duress of taking professor's Hwang course at USC. This is the only way they can cell this worthless book. Wish I could return it to the publisher. P.S. A good example on how not to write the computer book (or any technical text book). POd
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