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... formatting codes that are used with fscanf and fprintf. For thefloat data type the formatting code required for decimal format is %f and for the double data type the %lf formatting ... demonstrates these formatting codes in the input and output of float and double type variables using fscanf and fprintf./* Program 1.3 - Reading and writing floats and doubles */#include ... 10)36 C programming for scientists and engineers2.3 Relational and logical operatorsThe C language uses relational operators to make comparisonsbetween operands. The operands...
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... the statistics required for parsing and estimation are the kinds of quantitiesthat dynamic programming algorithms for graphicalmodels can perform. Since neither Maxwell and Ka-plan’s packed ... Francisco. Morgan Kaufmann.John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, and Fernando Pereira. 2001.Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic models for seg-menting and labeling sequence data. In Machine Learn-ing: ... dynamic programming algorithms for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (PCFGs);specifically the Viterbi algorithm for finding themost probable parse of a string, and the Inside-Outside algorithm for...
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... introduces the iOS SDK and explores iOS as a delivery platform, limitations and all. It explains the break-down of the standard iOS application and helps you get started with the iOS Developer ... you’re new to Objective-C as wellas to iOS, you’ll appreciate this basic skills chapter. Objective-C is the standard programming language for both iOSandfor Mac OS X. It offers a powerfulobject-oriented ... to create The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook:Expanded Electronic Edition, which will release in electronic-only form (namely, ePub for iBooks, Kindle, and PDF for desktops).The Expanded Electronic...
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... and switch-ing techniques, as well as technologies that are relevant for modern and future mul-ticore processors.The second part presents parallel programming models, performance models, and ... models, and parallel programming environments for message passing and shared memorymodels, including MPI, Pthreads, Java threads, and OpenMP. For each of theseparallel programming environments, ... Performance models and techniques for runtime analysis are described in detail, as they are a prerequisite for achieving efficiency and high performance.The third part applies the programming techniques...
... and techniques. For a general course on parallel programming, Chaps. 2, 5, and 6 can be used. Thesechapters introduce programming techniques for both distributed and shared addressspaces. For ... understand the relevantconcepts and to avoid common programming errors that may lead to low perfor-mance or cause problems like deadlocks or race conditions. Programming examples and parallel programming ... techniques for selecting pathsthrough networks and switching techniques for message forwarding over a givenpath. Section 2.7 considers memory hierarchies of sequential and parallel plat-forms and...
... 2.3 (a) for anillustration.14 2 Parallel Computer ArchitectureChaps. 3 and 5. To perform message-passing, two processes PA and PBon differentnodes A and B issue corresponding send and receive ... are therefore alsocalled NUMAs (non-uniform memory access), see Fig. 2.5. Since single SMP sys-tems have a uniform memory latency for all processors, they are also called UMAs(uniform memory ... non-uniform memory access, (c) CC-NUMA – cache-coherentNUMA, and (d) COMA – cache-only memory accessmore and more important to get good performance results at program level. Thisis also true for...