PART I

HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS: TAXONOMY, TYPICAL USES, AND PROGRAMMING ISSUES

In this part, we outline the existing platforms used for high - performance het-erogeneous computing and the typical ways these platforms are used by their end users . We understand a platform as a hardware/software environment used to produce and execute application programs. We also outline programming issues encountered by scientifi c programmers when they write applications for heterogeneous platforms.

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High-Performance Heterogeneous Computing, by Alexey L. Lastovetsky and Jack J. DongarraCopyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.