Books on parallel programming in OpenMP and MPI

Question

I've been programming with C and FORTRAN for the past 6 years, but I have only done serial programming until now. I would now like to switch to parallel program design, but I haven't really found a book that would help me make this jump. I have looked at Chandra's book on Parallel programming in OpenMP and Michael J. Quinn's book on programming in C with Open Mp and MPI, but I was wondering if there was a better alternative to these two. Thanks in advance!

Prashanth

Answer 1

I can recommend Using OpenMP by Chapman, Jost and Van de Pas. It's a really good introduction to OpenMP and includes plenty of details on using the language and getting best performance.

This tutorial might also be a useful introduction if you have never experienced parallel programming, it's a good entry to the general concepts and ideas.