"The purpose of this book is to help you program shared-memory parallel
machines without risking your sanity. We hope that this book's design
principles will help you avoid at least some parallel-programming pitfalls.
That said, you should think of this book as a foundation on which to build,
rather than as a completed cathedral. Your mission, if you choose to accept, is
to help make further progress in the exciting field of parallel
programming--progress that will in time render this book obsolete. Parallel
programming is not as hard as some say, and we hope that this book makes your
parallel-programming projects easier and more fun.
In short, where parallel programming once focused on science, research, and
grand-challenge projects, it is quickly becoming an engineering discipline. We
therefore examine specific parallel-programming tasks and describe how to
approach them. In some surprisingly common cases, they can even be automated.
This book is written in the hope that presenting the engineering discipline
underlying successful parallel-programming projects will free a new generation
of parallel hackers from the need to slowly and painstakingly reinvent old
wheels, enabling them to instead focus their energy and creativity on new
frontiers. We sincerely hope that parallel programming brings you at least as
much fun, excitement, and challenge that it has brought to us!"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00854
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