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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 1 Manipulations on Matrixes -- 1.1 Matrix Properties -- 1.1.1 Elementary Operations -- 1.2 Eigen-Decompositions -- 1.3 Eigenvectors in Everyday Life -- 1.3.1 Conversations in a Noisy Restaurant -- 1.3.2 Power Control in a Cellular Communication System -- 1.3.3 Price Equilibrium in the Economy -- 1.4 Derivative Rules -- 1.4.1 Derivative with respect to x∈ Rn -- 1.4.2 Derivative with respect to x∈ Cn -- 1.4.3 Derivative with respect to the Matrix X∈Rm×n -- 1.5 Quadratic Forms -- 1.6 Diagonalization of a Quadratic Form -- 1.7 Rayleigh Quotient -- 1.8 Basics of Optimization -- 1.8.1 Quadratic Function with Simple Linear Constraint (M=1) -- 1.8.2 Quadratic Function with Multiple Linear Constraints -- Appendix A: Arithmetic vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.7.1 Additional reading -- 1.7.2 Exercises -- Summary -- 2 Planning for parallelization -- 2.1 Approaching a new project: The preparation -- 2.1.1 Version control: Creating a safety vault for your parallel code -- 2.1.2 Test suites: The first step to creating a robust, reliable application -- 2.1.3 Finding and fixing memory issues -- 2.1.4 Improving code portability -- 2.2 Profiling: Probing the gap between system capabilities and application performance -- 2.3 Planning: A foundation for success -- 2.3.1 Exploring with benchmarks and mini-apps -- 2.3.2 Design of the core data structures and code modularity -- 2.3.3 Algorithms: Redesign for parallel -- 2.4 Implementation: Where it all happens -- 2.5 Commit: Wrapping it up with quality -- 2.6 Further explorations…”