"This is a book about learning OpenMP. It is not a book to look up specific constructs, as a reference guide would be. The authors' goal is to guide the user through the most essential elements of OpenMP; to help them master the essential core of OpenMP.The authors call this the OpenMP Common Core. It is the 21 components from OpenMP that most OpenMP programmers use most of the time. This is based on over 20 years of teaching OpenMP. The authors know the content they've selected and the way it is presented work because they've presented this material to many thousands of students. There is no other book on learning parallel computing that can make such a claim"--
