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This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science, PARA'95, held in Lyngby, Denmark, in August 1995. The 60 revised full papers included have been contributed by physicists, chemists, and engineers, as well as by computer scientists and mathematicians, and document the successful cooperation of different scientific communities in the booming area of computational science and high performance computing. Many widely-used numerical algorithms and their applications on parallel computers are treated in detail. ... Read more

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Parallel computing has begun to play a vital role in the advancement of science, engineering, and modern technology. This increased sophistication in research has led to a need for larger and faster computers, ie for parallel computers and they in turn are themselves stimulating the redevlopment of new computational methods. Recently parallelism has become the most frequently used technique to explore solutions to compute intensive situations. In parallel computing, the areas of computer engineering and physical sciences overlap considerably with the academic areas of mathematics and computer science. The knowledge requirement in each of these areas is different and requires an understanding of the growing complexity of computer architecture that has occurred over the past decade before being able to make progress in the parallel computing area. "Advances in Parallel Computing" attempts to address two specific areas. Firstly, survey articles of current interest in parallelism and secondly, research topics in parallelism which are constantly appearing and progressing in new directions. Thus, the series includes and explores topics that have been identified as future research areas.The authors of these articles are be drawn from researchers who are current leaders in the field. ... Read more

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Increasingly, research in parallel computing is focused on how high-level language constructs can be implemented. Through the introduction of a language, EVAL, the authors show how such languages can help to develop a better understanding of the nature of data parallelism and consequently produce more elegant and portable programs. ... Read more

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This book contains papers selected for presentation at theSixth Annual Workshop on Languages and Compilers forParallel Computing. The workshop washosted by the OregonGraduate Institute of Science and Technology. All themajorresearch efforts in parallel languages and compilersarerepresented in this workshop series.The 36 papers in the volume aregrouped under nine headings:dynamic data structures, parallel languages, HighPerformance Fortran, loop transformation, logic anddataflowlanguage implementations, fine grain parallelism,scalaranalysis, parallelizing compilers, and analysis of parallelprograms. The book represents a valuable snapshot of thestate of research in the field in 1993. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2007, held in Dalian, China in September 2007.

The 53 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from over 600 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on network applications: cluster and grid computing, internet computing, optical networks, peer-to-peer computing, ubiquitous computing, wireless computing; network technologies: communication technology, network algorithms, network reliability, security, and dependability, network storage; network and parallel architectures: multicore design issues, network and interconnect architecture, nontraditional processor technologies, performance modeling and evaluation, system design issues for low power and energy efficiency; as well as parallel and distributed software: data mining, parallel programming tools, models, languages and compilers.

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This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Eighth Annual Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, held in Columbus, Ohio in August 1995.
The 38 full revised papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the proceedings and reflect the state of the art of research and advanced applications in parallel languages, restructuring compilers, and runtime systems. The papers are organized in sections on fine-grain parallelism, interprocedural analysis, program analysis, Fortran 90 and HPF, loop parallelization for HPF compilers, tools and libraries, loop-level optimization, automatic data distribution, compiler models, irregular computation, object-oriented and functional parallelism. ... Read more

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Advances in microelectronic technology have made massivelyparallel computing a reality and triggered an outburst ofresearch activity in parallel processing architectures andalgorithms. Distributed memorymultiprocessors - parallelcomputers that consist of microprocessorsconnected in aregular topology - are increasingly being used tosolvelarge problems in many application areas. In order to usethese computers for a specific application, existingalgorithms need to berestructured for the architecture andnew algorithms developed. The performance of a computationon a distributed memory multiprocessor isaffected by thenode and communication architecture, theinterconnectionnetwork topology, the I/O subsystem, and theparallelalgorithm and communication protocols. Each of theseparametersis a complex problem, and solutions require anunderstanding of the interactions among them.This book is based on the papers presented at theNATOAdvanced Study Institute held at Bilkent University, Turkey,inJuly 1991. The book is organized in five parts: Parallelcomputingstructures and communication, Parallel numericalalgorithms, Parallel programming, Fault tolerance, andApplications and algorithms. ... Read more

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Increasing sophistication in research has led to a need for larger and faster computers. In this quest, supercomputers are themselves stimulating the redevelopment of the methods of computation. The results play a vital role in the advancement of science, engineering and modern industrial technology. Describing a few of the many research directions being taken to investigate potential parallel-computer designs, this book enables the researcher to keep pace with rapid advances in the development of computer architectures directed towards parallel processing and high execution rates. It discusses projects being conducted at universities, national laboratories and in industry, guided by the applications at those sites and the scientific expertise located there. The projects are not limited to developing a prototype computer; they are building new hardware concepts, and switching networks and developing new algorithms for parallel computing. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT 2003, held in Novosibirsk, Russia in September 2003. The 38 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers and 10 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theory, software, applications, and tools. A broad variety of parallel processing issues and distributed computing in general are addressed. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA'96, held in Lyngby, Denmark, in August 1996. The volume presents revised full versions of 45 carefully selected contributed papers together with 31 invited presentations. The papers address all current aspects of applied parallel computing relevant for industrial computations. The invited papers review the most important numerical algorithms and scientific applications on several types of parallel machines. ... Read more

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It was the aim of the conference to present issues in parallel computing to a community of potential engineering/scientific users. An overview of the state-of-the-art in several important research areas is given by leading scientists in their field. The classification question is taken up at various points, ranging from parametric characterizations, communication structure, and memory distribution to control and execution schemes. Central issues in multiprocessing hardware and operation, such as scalability, techniques of overcoming memory latency and synchronization overhead, as well as fault tolerance of communication networks are discussed. The problem of designing and debugging parallel programs in a user-friendly environment is addressed and a number of program transformations for enhancing vectorization and parallelization in a variety of program situations are described. Two different algorithmic techniques for the solution of certain classes of partial differential equations are discussed. The properties of domain-decomposition algorithms and their mapping onto a CRAY-XMP-type architecture are investigated and an overview is given of the merit of various approaches to exploiting the acceleration potential of multigrid methods. Finally, an abstract performance modeling technique for the behavior of applications on parallel and vector architectures is described. ... Read more

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This book covers the key topic areas of parallel computer architectures; operating systems and software environments; algorithms and their implementations; mathematical software and large-scale scientific applications. Contained are the papers from contributed talks and poster sessions presented at the conference, held in Capri, Italy, in June 1990. The goals of the conference reflected in this proceedings were to assess the progress made in the 1980's in parallel computation for scientific applications and to examine trends in large-scale computation as we enter the 1990's. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT 2005, held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in September 2005.

The 38 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theory, fine-grain parallelism, software, tools, and applications. A broad variety of parallel processing issues and distributed computing in general are addressed as well.

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The development of supercomputers has had considerable impact in computational mechanics where computer techniques are used to solve complex equations representing engineering problems. Parallel processing using supercomputers is especially useful in solving problems in computational fluid dynamics where much processing power is necessary. At present developments in hardware lead research in methods and algorithms, and this book deals with the application of parallel processing with supercomputers and examines the problems of computational mechanics in a logical way. ... Read more

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This work contains a selection of papers resulted from the European Workshops on Parallel Computing '92, presenting the results of many different research projects in this field. Topics covered include numerical algorithms, monitoring and visualization, parallelization techniques, operating systems issues, image rendering, parallel languages and real-time and industrial systems. ... Read more

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Researchers and practitioners involved with the development and utilization of parallel languages, software, and systems will find this collection of articles a useful summary of the history, development, programming, and applications of the Distributed Array of Processors (DAP) architecture.Manufactured by Active Memory Technology in Britain, DAP provides massively parallel, fine grain processing and is an example of a Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream (SIMD) architecture where multiple processors are under a single control.The DAP is basically a software computer and has been shown to have a much wider range of applicability than special purpose floating point processors or image processing systems.Articles in the book's final section demonstrate the breadth of DAP applicability, noting that while applications for the DAP are suitable in a general sense if they are CUP-limited on normal machines and are large enough to take advantage of the many microprocessors available for concurrent processing, there are several secondary characteristics that the DAP might exploit. These include large amounts of logical, character or integer operations; operations over large structured data sets; and applications which can benefit by special data representations - unusually short or long numerical forms, modular arithmetic, fixed point number representions, and character representations.Dennis Parkinson was formerly Director of the Center for Parallel Computing at Queen Mary College, London. Massively Parallel Computing with the DAP is included in the series Research Monographs in Parallel and Distributed Computing. Copublished with Pitman Publishing. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2008, held in Shanghai, China in October 2008.

The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from over 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on network technologies; network applications; network and parallel architectures; parallel and distributed software.

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This book features chapters which explore algorithms, programming languages, systems, tools and theoretical models aimed at high performance computing on heterogeneous networks of computers. ... Read more

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This volume contains a selection of the results of ESPRIT's Project 415 on languages for parallel architectures. The text investigates a variety of programming styles including functional, logic and object-oriented paradigms. Highlights of the book include a detailed discussion of design and semantic foundations of Philips' parallel object-oriented language POOL, the derivation of an implementation model for lazy functional languages using abstract interpretation and a presentation of the principles of FP2, a functional parallel programming language. The author also discusses the development of a Petri-net semantics for AADL, an axiomatic architecture description language. ... Read more