An Introduction to Parallel Programming Paperback – 1 Jan. 2011

Product arrive early very happy with this second had book. No markings on any page all in perfect condition. Slight damage on top spine of book but only from use. Great second hand purchase delighted!

I bought this book for a dual purpose: To use in a post-grad class I am taking, and to help me build a distributed systems that I am currently developing. The book is pedagogically exquisite. The presentation and explanations are ordered, logical and non-assuming, and that is where this books shines - and probably why it is getting all the good reviews here and elsewhere. However, the book stands very short of being practical to anything but the simplest of applications - compare it to other books that have similar titles, even with the word introduction in the title and you immediately see the difference. Having said that, I think this the best place to start, it the most approachable introduction to the subject, but in my opinion, it could have accommodated more content either on the design and analysis of parallel algorithms or on the details of implementing more than plain vanilla concurrent solutions.