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A chess book on the openings, aimed at a club audience.
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This book is good! .......2006-01-25
Don't really listen to the guy who reviewed from Hawaii. He is using Stats from a database that is seven years old for christ sakes! Also, statistics don't mean much if you don't talk about very specific lines, or the best lines to date. For instance, the Botvinnik Semi-Slav may have misleading statistics, given the sharp and ever changing nature of the positions. If Black is scoring badly in a couple of different lines, but then he finds the best line some time later, and only a couple of games in this line are included in a given persons database, they will make the wrong conclusion that it sucks, and they won't play it, because the database is flooded with inconclusive games in variations that shouldn't even be considered. The lines given in this book are really good lines, and you really don't have to be bogged down in theory if you don't want to be. If you go through every variation in the book, in sequential, not only are you stupid, but you deserve to sit there that long. You should go over the games, recognizing general piece placements, positional and tactical ideas. If you come to some point where you wonder what would happen if Black were to play this, look at the variations given, and check it out. Then when you are done playing a game in the variation, check and see where you missed a better move, or what you should have played. Also, notice that this is an opening book. Dunnington might leave off ? and ?! if it is post-opening. It's very common in opening books to talk about the first 20 moves with alot of analysis and talk, and then leave the rest blank, when it's well past the opening and not really worth talking about. Why take up space in an opening book with middlegame analysis unless it is a very common thing for the opening itself. And just for the record, Baker's book gives much more insipid recommendations than the recommendations in Dunningtons book. Dunnington's writes a winner again!
Odds and Ends for your Repertoire.......2004-11-18
I think I should start first with the strengths of this book. First of all, there are some unifying principles here that most of the variations share in common: attacking and aggressive openings. There is no question that some of these variations are going to win you games, if you do the follow-up research.
I'm especially keen on the Queen's Gambit Declined Exchange variation. I think this variation is very appealing to players seeking a simple way to pursue a positionally based initiative. Although I believe another book, The Queen's Gambit for the Attacking Player, recommended it as well. Looking at the variations I see that Dunnington does indeed have White play that way for the very reason I like it. By playing the exchange White can put his king's knight on e2, play e3 to back up the d4 pawn, play f3 to guard e4 and drop his dark squared bishop back to f2 (after pawn to f3 and after h6 kicks the bishop to h4) to bolster his kingside defense and his pawn structure. At the right time he may even be able to play e4.
You see, the king's knight not only over-protects d4 it also can go to f4 in certain cases and it gets out of the way of the fpawn. That is why White can often dominate e4. This is what White gets an exchange for cxd5, when Black can liberate his otherwise bad light squared bishop with exd5.
So the theme here is kingside space with hopefully prospects against the king later on, maquerading as a positional opening.
Another good one is the variation recommended against the Grunfeld. Okay, I'm not that strong of a player but Irina Krush and others have tried playing this way (4.Bf4)and it appears to have real poison behind it. Of course, the Grunfeld isn't bust by it but other ways of playing would take up 40 pages. Looking at the relevant passage from Jonathan Rowson's book on the Grunfeld he says about this variation (7.Rc1 dxc4 8.Bxc4 0-0 9.Nge2! [are you seeing a pattern?]) "...I think most sources have massively underestimated[it]." Dunnington gives 11.Nb5 as his mainline so I won't go further except to say that Rowson does not analyse this on the 11th move so I can't really compare. He does give 11.Qb3 as an alternative with some analysis but does not tackle Rowson's suggested answer to it, but I can say that both ways of playing are very tricky and if Black doesn't know what he is doing he will probably lose material.
Of course, it's a good idea to research this with a database and other books bfore playing it. In other words, do the follow-up.
Now I'm reviewing this book because a friend of mine gave it to me because I told him I was thinking of playing d4 in tournament. And as you can see there's some good qualities in the book.
Now before I get to the parts I didn't like, I should say that this book is at least consistent in favoring Nc3 over Nf3 on the third move. This is important because the other way of playing d4, emphasizing Nf3 (as in Palliser's book) is more passive and puts let's pressure on the Black and his d5 square. If you're going to want to attack this is the way to do it. Otherwise just play e4. In fact, in various Kasparov-Karpov encounters Karpov relied on the NimzoIndian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4)as an answer to 3.Nc3. Previously he had been using 3...d5 or playing that on the first move and going for the QGD. Kasparov, the King of Attackers would go for, you guessed it, the exchange variation with the King's Knight on e2. Karpov couldn't really get winning chances against this. Now if White avoids the Nimzo and plays 3.Nf3 black plays d5 with a much better game as White has commited his Knight to f3. This is what is called move order finesse. Therefore White MUST not be a girlyman and be prepared for the Nimzo! In this book Dunnington presents the f3 system which really just transposes to something called the Samisch. It involves playing f3. The recommended variation against the Benko gambit here also involves an early f3 by the way. I'm lukewarm on the variation, but Yakovich just wrote a whole book (f3 NimzoIndian) on it so who knows? Here Black has much less to worry about, his development is very smooth and White must be more imaginative. Sorry, that's just the way it goes, the Nimzo is a great defense. Kasparov, by the way, chose 4.Nf3 as his solution. 4.Qc2 is also a good choice because White gets the bishop pair without bad pawns, but the Samisch is alright considering you're going to have to work hard anyway.
I also think that giving 8.Ne2 in the Marshall Gambit in response to the Semi-Slav is consistent and aggressive as well as tricky!
Now for the bad stuff. Before I go on to some specifics it is worth mentioning that this is one of those Everyman Chess books that is pretty thin. That means I think some of the analysis is skimpy, or just not satisfying. In particular I thought his work on the Schara Gambit was weak. OK maybe you won't face it for years, but it is troublesome. I happen to think from a practical perspective Black gets play there and Dunnington does't stop to explain his evaluations.
My biggest problem with this book is that it recommends 4.Bg5 against the Slav. This goes against consistency, because it's not an exchange variation of the QGD, and it has virtually no Grandmater adherents. It also scores very low for White and gives him no advantage unless Black stupidly plays 4.e6. In short, it's insipid. Yes, Dunnington has a seperate chapter for the QGA, but all the QGD stuff gets slammed into one chapter! I think this book should have been twenty pages longer with the Slav and the Benko getting their own chapters. And a seperate illustrative game on the Schara Gambit, thanks! But Bg5 in the Slav is garbage with Black winning more than White!
I don't have much confidence in the line given for the Benko (King exposure), and the odds and ends chaper is a Frankenstein's monster of inadequacy. He just doesn't have enough room to make it all work. Still, he could have done a slightly better job even with the strict space limits. His given responses to dark squared Modern and Old Indian systems is leaving a lot to be desired. If he had more to work with he could have presented the fianchetto variation of the Benko, which at the time of writing was a virtual refutation. Some of the variations are off the wall and involve needlessly exposing the King. Why get so sharp in minor openings?
Overall, a mixed bag and hardly anytime for verbal explanations. But worth getting if you don't mind or can afford combining it with other books and materials.
Lots of loopholes.......2001-12-11
This book is "OK" at best. There appear to be a good number of loopholes in the book (many of them minor, but loopholes all the same).
The major ones really stand out in the chapter on the Nimzo-Indian Defense with 4.f3.
The first of the 3 games covers 4...c5 (or does it??????). It gives 5.d5 Nh5 like 5...Nh5 is the only move Black ever makes here. I referred back to Tony Kosten's "New Ideas in the Nimzo-Indian Defense" from 1994 (Excellent book by the way), and it shows that Black has at least 4 different options, if not more. Since I have started playing 4.f3 about 2 months ago, I've faced nothing but 4...d5 Over the Board so far (which is the most common response anyway, and at the moment, I've only played roughly 5 games against the Nimzo with 4.f3), but on the internet, I get a good bit of 4...c5, and I still have yet to have an opponent play 5...Nh5 (the most common response seems to be 5...b5 with my experience).
Also, some offbeat lines seem to be missing too.
Lastly, in the King's Indian, they give the 4-pawns attack, which I have played now for over 3 years, and while this book is supposed to be giving "attacking" lines, as the author seems to advertise, he then starts shying away from the "attacking lines". For example, after d4 Nf6 c4 g6 Nc3 Bg7 e4 d6 f4 0-0 Nf3 c5 d5 e6 Be2 exd5 cxd5 (which is a transposition to the Benoni), after 9...Re8, he gives the more passive approach, 10.Nd2. If this is supposed to be a book on attacking lines, why not have the reader play "attacking lines"...quit wimping out, and play 10.e5 (I've played it the entire time I've played the 4-pawns, and have had decent results with it.
A WORD ABOUT DUNNINGTON (The Author himself)
Based on Dunnington's book on the Catalan (also supposedly a reportoire book for White) having only 2 losses for White out of 25, he doesn't seem to like to show anything to his readers that might scare the reader away, but reality shows that the only way to learn what's right is also to learn what's wrong. I'm curious if he leaves out these lines because of perhaps bad results recently. Take a game that Black wins, and point out the moves that are wrong, and then explain why they are wrong, and a better solution. Don't cover it up by not including it.
He also did basically the same thing with his King's Indian Attack book. I agree there are many books that are written for one side or the other (like the one this review applies to, and the 2 mentioned here), but that doesn't mean give the side you are showing ideas for a score of 80+%. It's unrealistic, and starts giving the reader false ideas that the openings show are the most all-mighty, all-powerful, impossible-to-lose-with openings. They AREN'T!!!!
I can't give this book more than 3 stars, and some Advice I have for Dunnington is to perhaps work on a NON-BIASED book. Maybe he'd do a better job of making his book more complete. His book on the Chigorin Queens Gambit is excellent, but otherwise, none of his books have hit the mark because they aren't even complete for the one side he is writing for (which he seems to specialize in books for White more than Black). If he's going to write a book for White, like this one, it should be COMPLETE from the White player's point of view, and it's NOT!!!
Good News, Bad News.......2001-11-18
The Good News is that Dunnington is a very good chess writer and excellent annotator. His books that I am personally familiar with,i.e. on the Chigorin, Catalan, Reti and "Pawn Power" are truly first rate. Some of his comments on strategy and planning in this book are quite instructive. The book is very good looking, has nice diagrams and high grade paper. The whole package exudes quality. The price is also right.
Unfortunately the Bad News makes me almost forget the Good News. The advertising and the back cover stress that the book contains an attacking repertoire that is not "bogged down with theory." This point is made twice. It was therefore disappointing to open the book and see oceans of variations and variations within variations. It was then further disconcerting to read the Preface where Dunnington states "I must stress this is not intended to be a watertight repertoire book, rather a tool with which to help the reader open 1 d4 with confidence." Since I already play 1 d4 (with as much confidence as anything else), what's the point of this book?
As a repertoire book this one is very user-unfriendly and disorganized. I read Mr. Alan Hartley's review and was interested in the variation he referred to as "weak" but couldn't find it because the book has no Index of Variations. Want to find the Budapest Gambit? Just look in Chapter 8 "Other Defenses" and leaf through the games until you find it. The Tarrasch and Semi-Slav are not identified but if you know them when you see them they will be found (somewhere) in "Queen's Gambit Dedclined and Slav Defenses" chapter. If you are serious about adopting this repertoire and using the book you will need to at least construct your own Index and Index of Variations.
Since the material looked rather daunting I decided to work through one game to see how long it would take me. I chose game #2 because it seemed to be of about average length (a 46 move draw).
I used my computer with Fritz 6.0 to go through the games to highlight good/bad moves and also to keep the variations in order, i.e., avoiding mistakes in resetting the pieces after a new variation (the only way to study a game in my opinion).
Since I now live on a remote island where there is no organized chess, I play only on the Internet. My ICC Standard rating is 1904 as I write this.
I was unable to complete the game in one sitting due to exhaustion and brain fade. After 64 minutes I was still in a subvariation to White's 6th move. Even at that I felt I was going a bit too fast to really absorb and understand the material. Based on the material covered in 64 minutes, I calculate it would take me 7 hours and 6 minutes to complete this game. I believe this is called "getting bogged down in theory." I hate to think how long it would take if I had been using a real chess set.
So how does one use all this information? I could not even consider going completely through all these games. I should also point out that the Fritz analysis of the variations, sub-variations, game fragments, etc., showed that there were some very bad moves with no (?) or (?!), so you really have your work cut out for you. It's more like doing a series of middlegame problems than learning an opening. The only answer seems to be to just go through the text moves and skip the variations unless there is some compelling reason not to (such as it's an alternative book move or the move you or your opponent made).
How good is the repertoire? I used my Chessbase Program and my Big DataBase 2000 (approx. 1.4 million games) for statistical information. Some of the suggestions are excellent like the Queen's Gambit Declined Exchange Variation which scores 64%! for White (it's the reason I gave up ...d5...e6...Nf6 some time ago. It seemed like it scored 100%), the e4 line in the Queen's Gambit Accepted also scores well (played by both Karpov and Kasparov). Unfortunately there are way too many bad recommendations such as the Slav (ld4 d5 2c4 c6 3Nc3 Nf6 4Bg5)which after 4...cxc4 is scoring 60%for Black! I suspect this is the line Mr. Hartley referred to but made a typo of c5 for c6. Dunnington's 1d4 f5 2c4 Nf6 3Nc3 g6 allows the Leningrad Dutch to score 59% for Black! The Stonewall Dutch 1d4 e6 2c4 f5 3Nc3 Bb4 scores 51% for Black! My own favorite defense to 1 d4, the Mexican Defense (Now more commonly referred to as The Black Knight's Tango) is not even covered. But since we know that Dunnington always recommends d4,c4 and Nc3 in order if possible, surely he would recommend ld4 Nf6 2c4 Nc6 3Nc3 and then the repertoire Mexican defense response is 3...e5 which is scoring 52% for Black! In the Four Pawns Attack against the King's Indian Defense, my database indicates that 6...Na6 is Black's best move. Dunnington's recommended 7 e5 allows Black to score 51% Most of the other stuff is less than the best but is at least O.K.
I went through Grandmaster Aaron Summerscale's book "A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire" (also a 1 d4 repertoire)in the same fashion and it passed with flying colors. My recollection is that every single line he recommends is very strong for White. I strongly recommend that book and the repertoire. I have been using it with some success for some time and it is very nice to never have to face a King's Indian, Grunfeld, Nimzo-Indian, Benko, etc.
My advice is forget about embarking upon the Herculean task of putting this material in some usable form because this repertoire isn't strong enough to make even a very small effort to learn it. Whatever you're playing now is probably better.
Admittedly my database only goes through 1999 but in reviewing it I found that International Master Dunnington plays mostly 1 Nf3 and a fairly large number of 1 d4 games but does not play any of the "Attacking with 1 d4" lines himself. I don't blame him, neither will I.
I hope this has been helpful to someone. Aloha.
Excellent........2001-10-20
Although I've bought several of his books, I've only recently got around to noticing that Dunnington's work is above average--thorough and thoughtful (unlike certain authors who tend toward skipping crucial variations altogether and making frequent uncommented references to unconvincing games--but I won't mention Gary Lane's name . . .oops).
This one, too, is well-organized, quite complete (in spite of a disclaimer to the contrary) and has plenty of lines that I'll be trying soon. My only complaint is that (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nf6) 4.Bg5?! is weak. . .I've tried to make 4. . .dxc4 5.a4 Qa5! 6.Bd2!? work, but I just don't believe it.
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This is a user-friendly guide to the art and science of management from Andrew S. Grove, the president of America's leading manufacturer of computer chips. Groves recommendations are equally appropriate for sales managers, accountants, consultants, and teachers--anyone whose job entails getting a group of people to produce something of value. Adapting the innovations that have made Intel one of America's most successful corporations,
High Output Management teaches you:
what techniques and indicators you can use to make even corporate recruiting as precise and measurable as manufacturing
how to turn your subordinates and coworkers into members of highly productive team
how to motivate that team to attain peak performance every time
Combining conceptual elegance with a practical understanding of the real-life scenarios that managers encounter every day,
High Output Management is one of those rare books that have the power to revolutionize the way we work
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Sound advice, if they really use it.......2002-09-11
I worked at Intel for over 5 years, and although this book is chock full of excellent strategies and advice for managers, I saw very little evidence that these principles were being put into use in the company during the entire time I was there, at least in my division, which was one of the bigger ones at the company.
I will say, however, that Intel is a very odd place to work with its own unique corporate culture, some of which I would say is quite functional, but a lot of it isn't; or at least, the principles they say do work really don't, because nobody has the nerve to apply them.
A good example of this is their principle of "risk-taking." This gets talked about more than most of the Intel cultural values. The reason is simple, although they say that it's okay to take risks, and that you won't be penalized if you fail, the reality is that no-one in their right mind ever does it if they don't have to. And it's not because your manager will give you a [rear-end]-reaming like you've never had before if your calculated risk fails and becomes a total disaster. That won't happen, because, as I said, they really do take this risk-taking principle seriously. Your boss may even commend you for having the cojones to take the risk even if your little project becomes a spectacular failure.
The problem is in a much more serious area, unfortunately. If you fail, you'll get penalized through your performance review. (And if you're an exempt employee, all it takes is two below average performance reviews and you can be fired. They don't even have to be really poor reviews). Suppose you spend 6 months working on a risky project that fails. Now it's review time. Because you wasted so much time on this other project, you won't have very many other successful projects to brag about, compared to all the other employees who didn't have the cojones like you did to take a chance, but who now have lesser but at least successful projects they can ballyhoo during "ranking and rating," (or "ranting and raving," as it's called). Hence, you won't be able to compete in Intel's intensive and truly byzantine performance-review process, which insures that people pick safer but less potentially beneficial projects that they know they can pull off and bring in under the wire by review time.
Another very odd thing about working there is that teamwork is valued almost over and above technical competence and originality. In fact, I would have to say Intel employees are about the most docile, uncomplaining, non-individualistic, and basically whipped employees I've ever seen. Someone should tell these guys it's okay to have a spine or a ... once in a while, instead of going through their work-life as a totally whipped, spineless eclair. Quite frankly, I'm not the most studly, macho guy in the world, myself, but these guys make me look like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all rolled into one.
Anyway, whether the principles and strategies in this book are actually being put into practice or not, Andy Grove is certainly a brilliant manager, and Intel is a more than unusually interesting place to work.
Good book of management techniques.......2001-05-02
This was a good book. I was not able to apply all of the techniques, but most of it came in useful. I always liked what Andy Grove did with Intel, his visions and his capability to keep Intel on the top. It's a good book. Read it. It will take you a couple of days, but you will be a better person after you have read it...
Good book but..........2001-04-19
Perhaps the strategies in this book work because Intel's people work very hard at implementing them, not because they are inherently better than other ideas.
When I first started at Intel one of the things I noticed right off was how old Intel employees looked for their age (at least the ones that had been there for 7-10 years or more) compared to the other companies I had worked at over the years. I noticed women only in their early 30's who had worked there since their early 20's, for whom the rosy bloom of youth had long since departed from their cheeks. The men also looked older.
I am not especially young-looking for my age, but I frequently get comments from Intel employees about how young I look for my age. Maybe that's because I haven't been here that long. Outside of Intel I rarely get comments like this. I may not look that young to most people for my age, but at least I don't look older than my age.
On an even more sobering note, health researchers have found that people who look old for their age actually have shorter life expectancies, and correspondingly, people who look young for their age have longer life expectancies.
I suspect that Intel's workaholic employees are the main reason for its success, but I wonder if they themselves understand the toll this success has exacted from them.
Management - Straight from the horses mouth!.......2000-07-03
This book made its way onto the short list of books that I have picked up and read cover to cover in one sitting. Andrew Grove helped create a small memory chip manufacturer, and in the face of increased foreign competition, turned his company around to create the largest producer of computer processor chips to date. This book is a concise explanation of the methods and tactics he used to make Intel what it is.
Management in a nutshell.......2000-02-15
Grove does an excellent job of relating production methods to something we can all understand, a food and beverage establishment. Aside from the production model, Grove opens the hood and examines compensation systems, meetings, employee review procedures and processes, and briefly discusses motivation ala Maslow's heirarchy. It's good, easy reading, and may be very informative and thought provoking to the open mind looking top gain a better understanding of Industrial Management.
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Suitable for the scientific researcher, computer-science student, or anyone else who might be interested in high-end computers, Parallel I/O for High-Performance Computing is a remarkably clear guide to recent research and expertise in parallel computing, and centers on ways for computers to process very large data sets more efficiently.
Although the title makes it sound as if its focus were very narrow, this book delivers an engaging glimpse into the world of serious, high-end scientific computing. It begins with a thorough tour of the issues that surround data storage. (The author writes clearly and meticulously, and describes trends in data storage, from disk drives and RAID technology to newer developments, like holographic data-storage systems.) Standards that are used by parallel computers to connect to data storage in parallel architectures are surveyed; also, there's extensive coverage of parallel file systems that have attempted to solve the problem of accessing terabytes of information at high speeds, for simulations and forecasting applications.
This book is very good at describing and summarizing a host of standards that have been developed by both academic and corporate researchers. For the working scientific programmer, sections that look at specific APIs for fast parallel I/O perhaps will be more immediately useful. There's coverage of MPI-IO, HPF I/O, and SIO LLAPI (three possible standards for parallel computing) for optimized file I/O for parallel systems. A section on two scientific libraries (NetCDF and HDF) that simplify loading numerical data offers complete sample programs in C, which show these APIs in action.
The purpose of this book is to expose the reader to the state of the art in high-end parallel computing, and suggest that I/O often is the bottleneck to achieving the best possible performance in scientific software. This far-ranging and intelligent guide will benefit any academic or scientific programmer, as well as anyone who wants to understand the fascinating world of high-end parallel systems that are used for simulations and serious number crunching. --Richard Dragan
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- Overview of high-performance I/O requirements
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- I/O levels (RAID technology, parallel file systems)
- Storage devices (primary, secondary, and tertiary storage)
- Magnetic disk drives
- Disk performance
- Magnetic tape
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- Parallelism and I/O requirements
- In-depth introduction to RAID
- Interconnect standards: SCSI, High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI), Gigabyte System Network (GSN), Fibre Channel, and message-passing networks
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Scientific and technical programmers can no longer afford to treat I/O as an afterthought. The speed, memory size, and disk capacity of parallel computers continue to grow rapidly, but the rate at which disk drives can read and write data is improving far less quickly. As a result, the performance of carefully tuned parallel programs can slow dramatically when they read or write files-and the problem is likely to get far worse.
Parallel input and output techniques can help solve this problem by creating multiple data paths between memory and disks. However, simply adding disk drives to an I/O system without considering the overall software design will not significantly improve performance. To reap the full benefits of a parallel I/O system, application programmers must understand how parallel I/O systems work and where the performance pitfalls lie.
Parallel I/O for High Performance Computing directly addresses this critical need by examining parallel I/O from the bottom up. This important new book is recommended to anyone writing scientific application codes as the best single source on I/O techniques and to computer scientists as a solid up-to-date introduction to parallel I/O research.
* An overview of key I/O issues at all levels of abstraction-including hardware, through the OS and file systems, up to very high-level scientific libraries.
* Describes the important features of MPI-IO, netCDF, and HDF-5 and presents numerous examples illustrating how to use each of these I/O interfaces.
* Addresses the basic question of how to read and write data efficiently in HPC applications.
* An explanation of various layers of storage - and techniques for using disks (and sometimes tapes) effectively in HPC applications.
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should be 4 and a half stars.......2006-05-11
It's not perfect, but it definitely doesn't deserve the 1 star review that another reviewer gave it ( he apparently wanted a book on MPI programming, which I would suggest he then buy a book on MPI and/or MPI-IO rather than one on "Parallel I/O ..." ).
I read this book years ago, and purchased it again today, and am enjoying reading it again. It covers a diverse and broad range of subjects, without being too light or heavy in any particular area. Mostly I like that the author treats the subject comprehensively, rather than just a HOW-TO of parallel I/O programming ( which the first reviewer apparently expected ). There is discussion of everything from system architecture, to APIs, to physical hardware and interconnects.
Well done, if not perfect, and the contents definitely match the label. I would definitely suggest this book for anyone wanting a good introduction to the subject, or someone looking for a comprehensive overview that is enjoyable to read.
Disappointed.......2003-12-20
I bought this book recently to enhance my knowledge of parallel I/O to improve a climate model built on MPI technology. To my disappointment, the author spent less than 1/10th of the book to actual parallel I/O programming. And the mere effort is a list of a few MPI subroutines. The rest of the book tries to cover everything about high performance I/O but does not convey anything USEFUL. I feel the price is way too high for such a mediocre book that talks about too broad a topic and fail to focus on anything specific. I glanced through the book and read the chaptors that talked a little bit about MPI and scientific data management. And now the book is gathering dust on my shelf.
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This digital document is an article from Australian Journal of Management, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8520 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Australian research output in economics and business: high volume, low impact?
Author: Anne-Wil Harzing
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Australian Journal of Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
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Volume: 30
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Title: Input output: transmission impossible.
Author: Michael Abrams
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Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
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Volume: 129
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Tech industry's output up amid industry challenges.(Industry Overview): An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal
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Title: Tech industry's output up amid industry challenges.(Industry Overview)
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