There Is Parallel Life for Java Scientific Programmers!

摘要

This book is an excellent text on parallel programming in Java, especially for computational science students and faculty. If you're short of time, simply reread the previous sentence and you'll get the gist of this review; the rest of the following is devoted to the statement's subtleties (including its use of italics). As an experienced Java programmer of science and engineering applications who has authored and used many Java scientific simulations for pedagogical purposes (some of them computationally intensive), I've frequently asked myself the following question: "Since I have a quadcore computer, and all of my programs are sequential, do the other three cores get bored while my program runs?!" In other words, wouldn't there be a way to parallelize my Java programs to make better use of even modestly powerful hardware?