High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

by Jonathan Schaeffer (Editor)

Overview

Major advances in computing are occurring at an ever-increasing pace. This is especially so in the area of high performance computing (HPC), where today's supercomputer is tomorrow's workstation.
High Performance Computing Systems and Applications is a record of HPCS'98, the 12th annual Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications. The quality of the conference was significantly enhanced by the high proportion of keynote and invited speakers. This book presents the latest research in HPC architecture, networking, applications and tools. Of special note are the sections on computational biology and physics.
High Performance Computing Systems and Applications is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on computer architecture and networking, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461375678
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	11/13/2012
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #478
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

I Keynote Presentations.- 1 Making Computer Design a Science Instead of an Art.- 2 Scalable Shared Memory and Shared Memory Clustering.- 3 High-Performance Computational Grids.- 4 High Performance Computing and Computational Chemistry in Canada—Quo Vadis.- 5 Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing: The Future of High-Performance Computing.- 6 Challenges of Future High-End Computing.- II Computational Physics.- 7 Parallel Performance of a Code Using Multidimensional FFTs (Invited Paper).- 8 Object-Oriented Scientific Programming with Fortran 90 (Invited Paper).- 9 Alternating Direction Implicit Methods on Distributed and Shared Memory Parallel Computers (Invited Paper).- 10 Simulating Galaxy Formation on SMPs.- III Database Systems.- 11 Data Parallelism in Java.- 12 A Comparative Study of Soft Real-Time Transaction Scheduling Policies in Parallel Database Systems.- 13 An Age-Threshold Algorithm for Garbage Collection in Log-Structured Arrays and File Systems.- 14 Thinking Big in a Small World — Efficient Query Execution on Small-scale SMPs.- IV Parallel I/O Issues.- 15 Speeding Up Automatic Parallel I/O Performance Optimization in Panda.- 16 Software Caching in A Parallel I/O Runtime System to Support Irregular Applications.- 17 HIPPI-6400—Designing for Speed.- V Performance Issues.- 18 RSD - Resource and Service Description.- 19 An Examination of the Performance of Two Electromagnetic Simulations on a Beowulf-Class Computer.- 20 Managing Divisible Loadon Partitionable Networks.- VI Computational Chemistry.- 21 NWChem Molecular Dynamics Simulation (Invited Paper).- 22 Using Gaussian Geminal Functions in Molecular Calculations: Integral Evaluation (Invited Presentation).- 23 The Development of Parallel GAMESS (Invited Presentation).- 24 Applications/TechnologyPush/Pull: Building Computational Infrastructure (Invited Presentation).- VII NUMA Architectures.- 25 A Virtual Cache Scheme for Improving Cache-Affinity on Multiprogrammed Shared Memory Multiprocessors.- 26 Stable Performance for cc-NUMA using First-Touch Page Placement and Reactive Proxies.- 27 A Comparative Study of Cache-Coherent Nonuniform Memory Access Systems.- 28 Parallel Computation of the Diameter of a Graph.- VIII Computational Biology.- 29 Calculation of Solvation Free Energies.- 30 Molecular Docking With a View: The Integration of a Monte Carlo Docking Program into a Virtual Reality Environment.- 31 Structural Ribonucleic Acid Motifs Identification And Classification.- 32 Computational Protein Folding.- IX Applications.- 33 Distributed Computing Over High-Speed Local Area Networks.- 34 Fast and Efficient Parallel Matrix Computations on a Linear Array with a Reconfigurable Pipelined Optical Bus System.- 35 Development of Parallel, Adaptive Finite Element Implementations for Modeling Two-Phase Oil/Water Flow.- 36 Parallel Solution Alternatives for Sparse Triangular Systems in Interior Point Methods.- X General Session.- 37 Managing Long Linked Lists Using Lock-Free Techniques.- 38 Single Stepping in Concurrent Executions.- 39 Adaptive Parallelism on a Network of Workstations.- 40 A New Family of Ring-Bisection Networks and Routing Algorithms.

Editorial Reviews

Proceedings of HPCS'98, the 12th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, held at the University of Calgary (exact dates not available). Presents the latest research in HPC architecture, networking, applications and tools, including sections on computational chemistry, biology and physics. Other topics addressed in the 40 articles are parallel I/O issues, NUMA architectures, database systems, and other applications. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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