performance processes. He presents the appropriate breadth of topics and supports these discussions with an emphasis on performance. Features *Emphasizes how to solve problems, with correctness the primary concern and performance an important, but secondary, concern *Includes a number of case studies which cover such topics as pthreads, MPI, and OpenMP libraries, as well as programming languages like Java, Ada, high performance Fortran, Linda, Occam, and SR *Provides examples using Java syntax and discusses how Java deals with monitors, sockets, and remote method invocation *Covers current programming techniques such as semaphores, locks, barriers, monitors, message passing, and remote invocation *Concrete examples are executed with complete programs, both shared and distributed *Sample applications include scientific computing and distributed systems

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