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Introduction to Parallel Programming

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The aims of this chapter is to provide a short introduction to parallel programming.

’Can you do addition?’ the White Queen asked. ‘What’s one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?’

’I don’t know’ said Alice. ‘I lost count.’ ’She can’t do addition,’ the Red Queen interrupted. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.

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Chivers, I., Sleightholme, J. (2015). Introduction to Parallel Programming. In: Introduction to Programming with Fortran. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17701-4_29

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