Written by high performance computing (HPC) experts, Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers provides a solid introduction to current mainstream computer architecture, dominant parallel programming models, and useful optimization strategies for scientific HPC. From working in a scientific computing center, the author

Georg Hager is a senior research scientist in the high performance computing group of the Erlangen Regional Computing Center at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.

Gerhard Wellein leads the high performance computing group of the Erlangen Regional Computing Center and is a professor in the Department for Computer Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.

Modern Processors. Basic Optimization Techniques for Serial Code. Data Access Optimization. Parallel Computers. Basics of Parallelization. Shared-Memory Parallel Programming with OpenMP. Efficient OpenMP Programming. Locality Optimizations on ccNUMA Architectures. Distributed-Memory Parallel Programming with MPI. Efficient MPI Programming. Hybrid Parallelization with MPI and OpenMP. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.