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William Gropp

William Gropp is the Director of the Parallel Computing Institute and the Deputy Director for Research at the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.  He is also a Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Professor Gropp is the series editor for the MIT Press Scientific and Engineering Computation series.

Titles by This Author

Using MPI and Using MPI-2

By William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk, Anthony Skjellum and Rajeev Thakur

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running Windows NT or Linux ("Beowulf" machines). The initial MPI Standard document, MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2, contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new features.

Using MPI, Second Edition

Portable Parallel Programming with the Message Passing Interface
By William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk and Anthony Skjellum

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running Windows NT or Linux ("Beowulf" machines). The initial MPI Standard document, MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2, contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new features.

Using MPI-2

Advanced Features of the Message-Passing Interface
By William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk and Rajeev Thakur

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running Windows NT or Linux ("Beowulf" machines). The initial MPI Standard document, MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2, contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new features.

MPI - The Complete Reference

Volume 2, The MPI Extensions
By William Gropp, Steven Huss-Lederman, Andrew Lumsdaine, Ewing L. Lusk, Bill Nitzberg, William Saphir and Marc Snir

Since its release in summer 1994, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification has become a standard for message-passing libraries for parallel computations. There exist more than a dozen implementations on a variety of computing platforms, from the IBM SP-2 supercomputer to PCs running Windows NT. The MPI Forum, which has continued to work on MPI, has recently released MPI-2, a new definition that includes significant extensions, improvements, and clarifications. This volume presents a complete specification of the MPI-2 Standard.

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Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux, Second Edition

Edited by William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk and Thomas Sterling

Use of Beowulf clusters (collections of off-the-shelf commodity computers programmed to act in concert, resulting in supercomputer performance at a fraction of the cost) has spread far and wide in the computational science community. Many application groups are assembling and operating their own "private supercomputers" rather than relying on centralized computing centers. Such clusters are used in climate modeling, computational biology, astrophysics, and materials science, as well as non-traditional areas such as financial modeling and entertainment.