This book is intended for two groups of readers: (a) practicing programmers, who need to acquaint themselves with techniques for optimizing their code on different kinds of hardware, and (b) managers (and others, including programmers) who need to know how to evaluate different kinds of hardware.

This new edition of High Performance Computing gives a thorough overview of the latest workstation and PC architectures and the trends that will in?uence the next generation. It pays special attention to memory design, tuning code for the best performance, multiprocessors, and benchmarking.