Index

Note: Page numbers followed by f indicate figures and t indicate tables.

A

Adders 
carry-look-ahead adder 103, 103f
prefix computation 103–104
ripple-carry adder 102, 102f
Advanced vector extensions (AVX) 304
Alice programming language 13
Amdahl’s law 199–201
Anonymous processes, Python 34–36, 35f
append method 248
Array processors 304
Arrays 173, 193–194
Asynchronous communication 139
Asynchronous computing 314

B

Barriers 132, 263–264
Bit serial adder 113
Blocking command 20–21, 21f, 22f
Blocking communication 313
Bounded buffer 251–252
Broadcast 90
Broadcast commands 20–21, 22f
Bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) model 
definition 136
direction and velocity 136
grid points 137, 137f
MPI 119
superstep 136, 137f
Bus arbiter 113
Buses  ...

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