Parallel Computing for Data Science : With Examples in R, C++ and CUDA (Paperback)

Introduction to Parallel Processing in R. "Why Is My Program So Slow?": Obstacles to Speed. Principles of Parallel Loop Scheduling. The Shared Memory Paradigm: A Gentle Introduction through R. The Shared Memory Paradigm: C Level. The Shared Memory Paradigm: GPUs. Thrust and Rth. The Message Passing Paradigm. MapReduce Computation. Parallel Sorting and Merging. Parallel Prefix Scan. Parallel Matrix Operations. Inherently Statistical Approaches: Subset Methods. Appendices.