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This book offers an up-to-date, practical tutorial on advanced features in the widely used OpenMP parallel programming model. Building on the previous volume, Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming (MIT Press), this book goes beyond the fundamentals to focus on what has been changed and added to OpenMP since the 2.5 specifications. It emphasizes four major and advanced areas: thread affinity (keeping threads close to their data), accelerators (special hardware to speed up certain operations), tasking (to parallelize algorithms with a less regular execution flow), and SIMD (hardware assisted operations on vectors).

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Ruud van der Pas is Distinguished Engineer in the SPARC Processor Organization at Oracle and coauthor of UsingOpen MP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming. Eric Stotzer is a Distinguished Member Technical Staff at Texas Instruments. Christian Terboven is the HPC Group Manager at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He has been a member of the OpenMP Language Committee since 2006 and serves as the Chair of the Affinity subcommittee.

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