Structured Parallel Programming offers the simplest way for developers to learn patterns for high-performance parallel programming. Written by parallel computing experts and industry insiders Michael McCool, Arch Robison, and James Reinders, this book explains how to design and implement maintainable and efficient parallel algorithms using a composable, structured, scalable, and machine-independent approach to parallel computing. It presents both theory and practice, and provides detailed ...

This book is a high-level overview of Sh and its relationship to other realtime shading and Graphics processing unit programming languages. It is a reference manual and language specification and methodically and exhaustively presents details of the various features of Sh.

This book covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work. Procedural shading, long valued for off-line rendering and production animation is now possible on interactive graphics hardware. These developments are important for areas such as game development, product design, and scientific visualization, among others. The authors inc

SAINTSVILLE, the full-cast audiobook production: Human actors. Human voices. In a world that's anything but...A summoned warrior and a grief-stricken witch collide in a city under siege.In Saintsville, the city the rest of the world calls New Orleans, death has arrived with a name, sparking a war among those that don’t officially exist. When a parish witch summons a warrior’s soul across the Veil to settle an old debt, everyone gets more than they bargained for: a displaced...