High Performance Computing Systems and Applications edited by Jonathan Schaeffer.

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 annu...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schaeffer, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
Edition:1st ed. 1998.
Series:The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 478
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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/Technology Push/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.