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An introduction to parallel algorithms

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This book provides an introduction to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms, with the emphasis on the application of the PRAM model of parallel computation, with all its variants, to algorithm analysis.
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Written by an authority in the field, this book provides an introduction to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms. The emphasis is on the application of the PRAM (parallel random access machine) model of parallel computation, with all its variants, to algorithm analysis. Special attention is given to the selection of relevant data structures and to algorithm design principles that have proved to be useful. Features *Uses PRAM (parallel random access machine) as the model for parallel computation. *Covers all essential classes of parallel algorithms. *Rich exercise sets. *Written by a highly respected author within the field. 0201548569B04062001

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An efficient implicit OBDD-Based algorithm for maximal matchings

TL;DR: An implicit OBDD-based maximal matching algorithm is presented that uses only a polylogarithmic number of functional operations with respect to the number of vertices of the input graph.
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Parallel Algorithms for Maximum Matching in Complements of Interval Graphs and Related Problems

TL;DR: This paper presents parallel algorithms for computing maximum cardinality matchings among pairs of disjoint intervals in interval graphs in the EREW PRAM and hypercube models and presents an improved parallel algorithm for maximum matching between overlapping intervals in proper interval graphs.
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A practical access to the theory of parallel algorithms

TL;DR: A parallel programming environment that implements the PRAM (Parallel Random Access Machine) model is described that is also especially suited for complementing classical theory courses on PRAM algorithms by programming exercises that allow students to experiment with PRAM-style parallelism and actually implement the algorithms as they appear in the theory textbooks.
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Scalability of 2-D wavelet transform algorithms: analytical and experimental results on MPPs

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that there exist combinations of machine size, image size, and wavelet kernel size for which the time-domain algorithms outperform the frequency domain algorithms and vice-versa.
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Parallel partition revisited

TL;DR: This paper considers parallel algorithms to partition an array with respect to a pivot and proposes a modification to obtain the minimal number of comparisons.
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Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays, Trees, Hypercubes

TL;DR: This chapter discusses sorting on a Linear Array with a Systolic and Semisystolic Model of Computation, which automates the very labor-intensive and therefore time-heavy and expensive process of manually sorting arrays.
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Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing

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TL;DR: The authors have divided the use of computers into the following four levels of sophistication: data processing, information processing, knowledge processing, and intelligence processing.
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Data parallel algorithms

TL;DR: The success of data parallel algorithms—even on problems that at first glance seem inherently serial—suggests that this style of programming has much wider applicability than was previously thought.
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Parallelism in random access machines

TL;DR: A model of computation based on random access machines operating in parallel and sharing a common memory is presented and can accept in polynomial time exactly the sets accepted by nondeterministic exponential time bounded Turing machines.
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The Parallel Evaluation of General Arithmetic Expressions

TL;DR: It is shown that arithmetic expressions with n ≥ 1 variables and constants; operations of addition, multiplication, and division; and any depth of parenthesis nesting can be evaluated in time 4 log 2 + 10(n - 1) using processors which can independently perform arithmetic operations in unit time.