Proceedings of the December 1998 conference. One hundred contributions cover architecture, mobile computing, Internet technology, database systems and applications, multimedia, interconnection network, high-speed networking, parallel/distributed computing and system supports, fault tolerance/real time, and compilation for parallelism. Contains an author list but no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Presents 66 contributions from the July 2000 conference. The technical areas covered are multimedia systems, group communications, checkpointing and commitment, Web-based computing, distributed shared memory, multicast, object-oriented programming, routing, fault tolerant systems, high performance databases, parallel systems, mobile systems, distributed algorithms, multi-agent systems, and parallel and distributed query processing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
PDSIA '99 was the fourth in a series of international workshops on parallel symbolic computing, a basic yet challenging area with wide applications in high-performance computing. As in the previous meetings, parallel symbolic languages and systems were the major topics. However, reflecting the latest advances in distributed computing systems, the workshop also encompassed wider perspectives in parallel and distributed computing for symbolic and irregular applications.
This text on parallel architectures and compilation techniques covers such topics as: loop transformations; shared memory design techniques; specialized multiprocessor systems; parallel programming languages; JAVA and multithreading processors; register allocation; and branch and value prediction."
The state of the art of high-performance computing Prominent researchers from around the world have gathered to present the state-of-the-art techniques and innovations in high-performance computing (HPC), including: * Programming models for parallel computing: graph-oriented programming (GOP), OpenMP, the stages and transformation (SAT) approach, the bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) model, Message Passing Interface (MPI), and Cilk * Architectural and system support, featuring the code tiling compiler technique, the MigThread application-level migration and checkpointing package, the new prefetching scheme of atomicity, a new "receiver makes right" data conversion method, and lessons learned from applying reconfigurable computing to HPC * Scheduling and resource management issues with heterogeneous systems, bus saturation effects on SMPs, genetic algorithms for distributed computing, and novel task-scheduling algorithms * Clusters and grid computing: design requirements, grid middleware, distributed virtual machines, data grid services and performance-boosting techniques, security issues, and open issues * Peer-to-peer computing (P2P) including the proposed search mechanism of hybrid periodical flooding (HPF) and routing protocols for improved routing performance * Wireless and mobile computing, featuring discussions of implementing the Gateway Location Register (GLR) concept in 3G cellular networks, maximizing network longevity, and comparisons of QoS-aware scatternet scheduling algorithms * High-performance applications including partitioners, running Bag-of-Tasks applications on grids, using low-cost clusters to meet high-demand applications, and advanced convergent architectures and protocols High-Performance Computing: Paradigm and Infrastructure is an invaluable compendium for engineers, IT professionals, and researchers and students of computer science and applied mathematics.
The near future will see the increased use of parallel computing technologies at all levels of mainstream computing. Computer hardware increasingly employs parallel techniques to improve computing power for the solution of large scale and computer intensive applications. Cluster and grid technologies make possible high speed computing facilities at vastly reduced costs.These developments can be expected to result in the extended use of all types of parallel computers in virtually all areas of human endeavour. Computer intensive problems in emerging areas such as financial modelling, data mining and multimedia systems, in addition to traditional application areas of parallel computing such as scientific computing and simulation, will lead to further progress. Parallel computing as a field of scientific research and development has already become one of the fundamental computing technologies.This book gives an overview of new developments in parallel computing at the start of the 21st century, as well as a perspective on future developments.
ICA3PP 2000 was an important conference that brought together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the knowledge of parallel and distributed computing. The proceedings constitute a well-defined set of innovative research papers in two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing: (1) architectures, algorithms and networks; (2) systems and applications.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN'98, held in Manila, The Philippines, in December 1998. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 43 submissions. Also included are a few invited contributions. Among the topics covered are automated deduction, proof theory, rewriting systems, program semantics, distributed processing, algorithms, and graph-theoretical aspects.
