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Of course but i am curious to know somebody's personal preference (i have my own collection and preference) particularly when they juxtapose it with TAOCP. It would be nice if you could find the book which seems to have made a significant impression on you and add it here so it is useful to others.

Nice! I didn't know of this particular book and hence now have to hunt it up.
Do you have any recommendations of your own that you can share?
Sure. IMO it is important to have an overall picture of the fields of Concurrent/Parallel/Distributed architecture/programming before delving into the details of a language/library implementation. To that end i have found the following books useful;

1) Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming by Gregory R. Andrews - This is one of my favourites even though old. You get to learn/compare the different paradigms in one single book.

2) Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice by Bertil Schmidt et al. - This is a more recent book with good explanations/coverage including CUDA.

3) The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy et al. - Well known classic though with a main focus on shared-memory architectures.

Along with the above you also need more detailed language/library specific implementation books;

a) C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams.

b) Programming with POSIX Threads by David Butenhof.

c) UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads by Kay Robbins and Steve Robbins.

Finally; for studying concurrency at the OS level where software meets hardware, i have found nothing better than;

i) Unix Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers by Curt Schimmel.

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