It has been my good fortune to work with the incredible contributors to this book. I admire their dedication, intelligence, and willingness to share their expertise. Their names are listed at the start of their chapters to which they contributed, and you can learn more about them and see their pictures in the “Contributor” section in this book. I hope you reap the full benefit of the hard work and years of experience they poured into each chapter.

Also never forget that being able to write and speak clearly are essential skills in any field, be it science, technology, or life. If in doubt, write a book! I can recommend an excellent publisher who is named on the book cover.

Thank you to Michael Wolfe for his support and extraordinary contributions to OpenACC, and to offering his thoughts in the Foreword.

Thank you to Todd Green, Julia Levites, Duncan Poole, Pat Brooks, and Nadeem Mohammed without whom this book would not have happened.

I’d like to thank a few of the many others who worked hard behind the scenes on this book: Nikolai Sakharnykh, James Beyer, Ken Hester, Brent Leback, James Norris, Kshitij Mehta, Adrian Jackson, Abid Muslim Malik, Maxime Hughes, Sunita Chandrasekaran, and Kartik Mankad. We have been blessed with the support and encouragement of management at NVIDIA, PGI, PathScale, and Cavium plus the fruits of the labor of those who are working to develop the OpenACC standard and compilers.

I wish to personally thank my son Ryan Farber for his love and the time I spent away from him while working on this project. Ryan is proof that I am the older model. He is growing into a global mover and shaker. I am blessed with a son who will far exceed my accomplishments. I’d also like to thank my friends James Reinders and Bertil Schmidt who have edited (many) books in the past and who provided insight that helped me create this book.

Kudo’s to the entire Morgan Kaufmann team including the three people we worked with directly: Todd Green, Lindsay Lawrence and Priya Kumaraguruparan.

So many people offered information, advice, and vision that it simply not possible to name them all. I thank everyone who helped, and I apologize to any who helped and were not mentioned here.

Thank you all,

Rob Farber