Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming

Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming
Simon Marlow (Author)

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If you have a working knowledge of Haskell, this hands-on book shows you how to use the language’s many APIs and frameworks for writing both parallel and concurrent programs. You’ll learn how parallelism exploits multicore processors to speed up computation-heavy programs, and how concurrency enables you to write programs with threads for multiple interactions.

Author Simon Marlow walks you through the process with lots of code examples that you can run, experiment with, and extend. Divided into separate sections on Parallel and Concurrent Haskell, this book also includes exercises to help you become familiar with the concepts presented:

• Express parallelism in Haskell with the Eval monad and Evaluation Strategies
• Parallelize ordinary Haskell code with the Par monad
• Build parallel array-based computations, using the Repa library
• Use the Accelerate library to run computations directly on the GPU
• Work with basic interfaces for writing concurrent code
• Build trees of threads for larger and more complex programs
• Learn how to build high-speed concurrent network servers
• Write distributed programs that run on multiple machines in a network

• Rank: #69012 in Books
• Published on: 2013-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.12 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 322 pages

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Vintage)

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Vintage)
George Dyson (Author)
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A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012

In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world.
 
In the 1940s and ‘50s, a small group of men and women—led by John von Neumann—gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within this embryonic, 5-kilobyte universe—less memory than is allocated to displaying a single icon on a computer screen today—broke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and our universe would never be the same. Turing’s Cathedral is the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of twentieth-century inventions—the digital computer and the hydrogen bomb—emerged at the same time.

• Rank: #56111 in Books
• Published on: 2012-12-11
• Released on: 2012-12-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.91" h x 5.12" w x .87" l, .94 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages