Parallel Computing: Fundamentals, Applications and New Directions / Edition 444

by E.H. D'Hollander, G.R. Joubert, Frans Peters, Ulrich Trottenberg

Overview

This volume gives an overview of the state-of-the-art with respect to the development of all types of parallel computers and their application to a wide range of problem areas.

The international conference on parallel computing ParCo97 (Parallel Computing 97) was held in Bonn, Germany from 19 to 22 September 1997. The first conference in this biannual series was held in 1983 in Berlin. Further conferences were held in Leiden (The Netherlands), London (UK), Grenoble (France) and Gent (Belgium).

From the outset the aim with the ParCo (Parallel Computing) conferences was to promote the application of parallel computers to solve real life problems. In the case of ParCo97 a new milestone was reached in that more than half of the papers and posters presented were concerned with application aspects. This fact reflects the coming of age of parallel computing.

Some 200 papers were submitted to the Program Committee by authors from all over the world. The final programme consisted of four invited papers, 71 contributed scientific/industrial papers and 45 posters. In addition a panel discussion on Parallel Computing and the Evolution of Cyberspace was held. During and after the conference all final contributions were refereed. Only those papers and posters accepted during this final screening process are included in this volume.

The practical emphasis of the conference was accentuated by an industrial exhibition where companies demonstrated the newest developments in parallel processing equipment and software. Speakers from participating companies presented papers in industrial sessions in which new developments in parallel computing were reported.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444828828
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/22/1998
Series:	Advances in Parallel Computing , #12
Edition description:	444th ed.
Pages:	745
Product dimensions:	1.63(w) x 6.14(h) x 9.21(d)

Table of Contents

Invited papers
Applications
Automatic parallelisation and data distribution
Debugging
Industrial perspective
Languages
Networks and communication
Operating systems and threads
Parallel algorithms
Parallel programming and visualisation tools
Performance
Scheduling and load balancing

Editorial Reviews

Since 1983, the Parallel Computing (ParCo) conferences have promoted the application of parallel computers to real life problems; more than half of the papers and posters were application-oriented in ParCo97 held in September 1997 in Bonn, where an industrial exhibition reinforced the practical emphasis. The invited and contributed papers cover all the bases: applications (e.g. scanning genomic data bases, solving large-scale network transportation problems, and fractal compression of satellite images); automatic parallelization and data distribution; debugging; industrial perspectives; languages, networks and communication; operating systems and threads; parallel algorithms; parallel programming and visualization tools; performance; and scheduling and load balancing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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