Techniques for Optimizing Applications: High Performance Computing

This book is a practical guide to performance optimization of computationally intensive programs on Sun UltraSPARC platforms, for developers of technical or high-performance computer (HPC) applications for Solaris who are familiar with development in UNIX environments, programming in C and Fortran, and parallel programming. This audience includes both independent software vendor developers and non-commercial developers. The book may also be helpful to technical application end-users seeking to understand principles of HPC. Garg works on compiler performance analysis and benchmarking at Sun Microsystems. Sharapov works on performance analysis and optimization of applications at Sun Microsystems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)