Parallel Computing: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-444-82490-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch

Reihe: Advances in Parallel Computing

The aim of this volume is to give an overview of the state-of-the-art of the development, application and future trends in parallel computing. The emphasis is on the applications of all types of parallel computers, which is reflected by the invited and contributed papers and posters included in these proceedings. The following topic areas are covered: 'Applications:' Various aspects of the application of parallel computers, including simulation, flow calculations, sorting, image processing, industrial computing, financial applications, optimisation, linear algebra. 'Software:' Software engineering for application development, including programming environments, object oriented methods, data parallelism, languages, compilers, monitoring and debugging, operating systems, scheduling, load balancing, threads. 'Hardware:' Systolic processors, networks, communication, performance measurement and analysis. 'Industrial:' Research and development activities of manufacturers of parallel computers and associated software tools and systems.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

'Due to space limitations, only a selection of contents is listed.' Invited Papers. Parallelism in CG-like methods (H.A. van der Vorst). High performance computing for finance (P. Dzwig). HPCC: The interrelationship of computing and communication (O.A. McBryan). Contributed Papers. Applications. Associative parallel logic simulation (S.P.V. Barros). A microscopic freeway traffic simulator on a highly parallel system (S. Di Gregorio 'et al.'). A robust parallel solver for 3D fluid flow problems using a high-level communications library (C.W. Oosterlee, H. Ritzdorf). The flame front propagation problem on the SIMD architecture QUADRICS (M. Falcone 'et al.'). Software. Specifying problems in a paradigm based parallel programming system (P.J. Parsons, F.A. Rabhi). Development of a program information base for the FPT programming environment (F. Zhang). Effects of nondeterminism on the predicted speedup of scheduling low level computer vision algorithms on networks of heterogeneous machines (A.R. Nolan 'et al.'). Mapping of a virtual computer structure on mesh-connected computers (B. Slivnik, R. Trobec). Object-oriented parallel software components for supercomputing (F. Guidec). Parallel programming language design with a layered object oriented approach (M. Migliardi 'et al.'). An object oriented implementation of distributed graph-based computations (T. Rauber, G. Rünger). Using threads to implement parallel tasks (J.N. Colin 'et al.'). PM2: Parallel multithreaded machine. A computing environment for distributed architectures (R. Namyst, J.-F. Mehaut). Hardware. Systolic processor for generalized convolution (T.P. Plaks). A comparative study of topological properties of some WDM lightwave networks (K. Marcus). Distributed and scalable simulation of ATM exchanges (W. Liu 'et al.'). Parallel program instrumentation for performance analysis (K.-C. Li, K. Zhang). Simultaneous iteration in parallel computing environments: A comparative evaluation (K. Murphy 'et al.'). Data movement by packet switching communication on reconfigurable processor arrays (P. Baglietto 'et al.'). Look-ahead dynamic reconfiguration of link connections in multi-processor architectures (M. Tudruj). Industrial. CONVEX/Hewlett-Packard exemplar SPP1200 scalable parallel processor: Architecture, programming paradigms and future development (F. Baetke). Posters. Efficient algorithms for the parallel Gaussian elimination on distributed memory machines (A.K. Amoura 'et al.'). Image template matching on distributed memory and vector multiprocessors (V. Blanco 'et al.'). Implementing a consistent cut algorithm in a message passing library (J. Bourgeois 'et al.'). Parallel benchmarks and comparison-based computing (C.P. Breshears, M.A. Langston). Distributed parallel architectures for the simulation of cognitive models in a realistic environment (F. Carreras, M. Leman). A parallel algorithm to compute the correlation dimension (A. Corana 'et al.'). A parallel searching and sorting method to compute entropies from time series (A. Corana, C. Rolando). Cellular neural networks: a benchmark for lattice problems on MPP (G. Destri, P. Marenzoni). Parallel fractal and JPEG image compression (G. Falkemeier 'et al.'). Author Index.