Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without a multitude of people who are not listed as contributors. The idea of the book was originated by Duncan Poole, the longtime OpenACC president. He wanted to offer not only online material but also really old-fashioned printed material so that students and interested readers can use this book to uncover the magic of parallel programming with OpenACC. When Duncan could not pursue this idea any further, he passed the torch to Sunita and Guido, and the result is now finally in all our hands.
We are eternally grateful to our helpers in keeping the flame going:
• Pat Brooks and Julia Levites from NVIDIA, for bringing us in contact with publishers and answering questions that require inside knowledge
• Laura Lewin and Sheri Replin—our editors—and production manager Rachel Paul and copy editor Betsy Hardinger for guiding us safely through the maze of actually generating a book
• Our chapter reviewers: Mat Colgrove, Rob Faber, Kyle Friedline, Roberto Gomperts, Mark Govett, Andreas Herten, Maxime Hugues, Max Katz, John Larson, Junjie Li, Sanhu Li, Meifeng Lin, Georgios Markomanolis, James Norris, Sergio Pino, Ludwig Schneider, Thomas Schwinge, Anne Severt, and Peter Steinbach
Some chapters would not have been possible without assistants to the contributors. Many thanks to Lingda Li, Masahiro Nakao, Hitoshi Murai, Mitsuhisa Sato, Akihiro Tabuchi, and Taisuke Boku!
Have we already thanked our contributors who went with us on this crazy journey, never let us down, and kept delivering content on time?
THANK YOU all.