CHAPTER 4: Further Avenues of Exploration

This book gives you just a taste of parallelism. However, if you are looking to do more, this chapter has some great resources.

• 4.1 MapReduce
  • 4.1.1 The MapReduce programming strategy
  • 4.1.2 WebMapReduce, a simplified interface for MapReduce computing
  • 4.1.3 More about using WMR
  • 4.1.4 WMR Exercises
• 4.2 GPUs
• 4.3 AI Applications - Minimax Algorithm
  • 4.3.0 Introduction
  • 4.3.1 Example: Tic-Tac-Toe
  • 4.3.2 Minimax Tree Search
  • 4.3.3 Minimax with Serial Depth First Search
  • 4.3.4 Parallelizing Depth-First Search
  • 4.3.5 Programming Implementations
  • Serial Implementation
  • OpenMP Implementation
  • MPI Implementation
  • 4.3.6 Further exploration
• 4.4 Other Free Resources For Learning Parallel Computing

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