Abstract Machine Models for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Abstract Machine Models for Parallel and Distributed Computing

Author: M. Kara

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9789051992670

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Abstract Machine Models have played a profound though frequently unacknowledged role in the development of modern computing systems. They provide a precise definition of vital concepts, allow system complexity to be managed by providing appropriate views of the activity under consideration, enable reasoning about the correctness and quantitative performance of proposed problem solutions, and encourage communication through a common medium of expression. Abstract Models in Parallel and Distributed computing have a particularly important role in the development of contemporary systems, encapsulating and controlling an inherently high degree of complexity. The Parallel and Distributed computing communities have traditionally considered themselves to be separate. However, there is a significant contemporary interest in both of these communities in a common hardware model; a set of workstation-class machines connected by a high-performance network. The traditional Parallel/Distributed distinction therefore appears under threat.

Scaling Up Machine Learning
Scaling Up Machine Learning

Author: Ron Bekkerman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 0521192242

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This integrated collection covers a range of parallelization platforms, concurrent programming frameworks and machine learning settings, with case studies.

Models for Parallel and Distributed Computation
Models for Parallel and Distributed Computation

Author: R. Correa

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1475736096

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Parallel and distributed computation has been gaining a great lot of attention in the last decades. During this period, the advances attained in computing and communication technologies, and the reduction in the costs of those technolo gies, played a central role in the rapid growth of the interest in the use of parallel and distributed computation in a number of areas of engineering and sciences. Many actual applications have been successfully implemented in various plat forms varying from pure shared-memory to totally distributed models, passing through hybrid approaches such as distributed-shared memory architectures. Parallel and distributed computation differs from dassical sequential compu tation in some of the following major aspects: the number of processing units, independent local dock for each unit, the number of memory units, and the programming model. For representing this diversity, and depending on what level we are looking at the problem, researchers have proposed some models to abstract the main characteristics or parameters (physical components or logical mechanisms) of parallel computers. The problem of establishing a suitable model is to find a reasonable trade-off among simplicity, power of expression and universality. Then, be able to study and analyze more precisely the behavior of parallel applications.

Architecture-Independent Loop Parallelisation
Architecture-Independent Loop Parallelisation

Author: Radu C. Calinescu

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1447107632

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Architecture-independent programming and automatic parallelisation have long been regarded as two different means of alleviating the prohibitive costs of parallel software development. Building on recent advances in both areas, Architecture-Independent Loop Parallelisation proposes a unified approach to the parallelisation of scientific computing code. This novel approach is based on the bulk-synchronous parallel model of computation, and succeeds in automatically generating parallel code that is architecture-independent, scalable, and of analytically predictable performance.

Euro-Par'96 - Parallel Processing
Euro-Par'96 - Parallel Processing

Author: Luc Bougé

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1996-08-14

Total Pages: 968

ISBN-13: 9783540616276

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Content Description #Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abstract Machine Models for Highly Parallel Computers
Abstract Machine Models for Highly Parallel Computers

Author: John R. Davy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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The papers collected in this volume cover a wide range of issues relevant to abstract models, including terminology and concepts for abstract models of computation, models for general purpose parallel computing, declarative models, performance modelling, and special purpose parallel models.The papers originated from the Second Workshop on Abstract Machine Models for Highly Parallel Computers, sponsored by the BCS Parallel Processing Specialist Group. Overall themes of the workshop were the specification, implementation, and application of such models, and the identification of keyissues for future research.

High-Performance Computing
High-Performance Computing

Author: Laurence T. Yang

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-11-18

Total Pages: 818

ISBN-13: 0471732702

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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.

Architectures, Languages and Techniques for Concurrent Systems
Architectures, Languages and Techniques for Concurrent Systems

Author: World Occam and Transputer User Group. Technical Meeting

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9789051994803

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During the past fifteen years concurrency in programming languages such as Java rose and fell, and again became popular. At this moment developers advise us to avoid concurrency in programming. They are using a host of deprecated methods in the latest releases How are we to understand the love-hate relationship with what should be a widely used approach of tackling real-world problems? The aim of rchitectures, Languages and Techniques is to encourage the safe, efficient and effective use of parallel computing. It is generally agreed that concurrency is found in most real applications and that it should be natural to use concurrency in programming. However, there has grown up a myth that concurrency is "hard" and only for the hardened expert. The papers collected in this book cover the whole spectrum of concurrency, from theoretical underpinnings to applications. The message passing style of concurrency, developed in the Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) approach, is considered, and extensions are proposed. CSP's realization in the programming language occam is used directly for applications as diverse as modeling of concurrent systems and the description of concurrent hardware. This latter application may be compared to the use of Java for the same purpose. Concurrency and the use of Java is the subject of further papers, as is the provision of CSP-like facilities in Java and C and techniques to use these languages to construct reliable concurrent systems. At a time when concurrency gives headaches, this book brings a welcome breath of fresh air. Concurrency can really be a positive way forward.

Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing
Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing

Author: Hesham El-Rewini

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-04-08

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0471478393

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Computer architecture deals with the physical configuration, logical structure, formats, protocols, and operational sequences for processing data, controlling the configuration, and controlling the operations over a computer. It also encompasses word lengths, instruction codes, and the interrelationships among the main parts of a computer or group of computers. This two-volume set offers a comprehensive coverage of the field of computer organization and architecture.

Advances in Computer and Information Sciences '98
Advances in Computer and Information Sciences '98

Author: U. Gudukbay

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9789051994056

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This volume includes very high quality papers in different areas of computer and information sciences. The main themes are (computer network) performance evaluation and artificial neural networks and their applications. The latest developments in these areas are presented by a number of distinguished researchers from all over the world. These proceedings of The 13th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'98) contain outstanding papers specifically related to the areas of "Gelenbe" neural networks and their applications, performance of computer-communication networks, simulations and analytic methods in order to study the performance of telecommunication networks, scheduling and resource allocation in computer and multimedia systems, stochastic ordering applied to performance evaluation, and simulation of virtual humans.