High Performance Computing - Technology, Methods and Applications

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Part 1 General: about high performance computing and this book, J. Kowalik and L. Grandinetti heterogeneous network-based computing systems, J. Dongarra data communication and high performance computing, O.A. McBryan scalability of parallel systems - efficiency versus execution time, J. Kowalik architectural features affecting total scalability of parallel systems, J. Sobolewski. Part 2 Hardware systems: trends in high-performance computer architecture, J.-L. Baer the CONVEX Exemplar SPP1200 - a new scalable parallel system with a virtual shared memory architecture, F. Maetke hardware performance of the VPP500 parallel supercomputer, A. Nodomi et al the balance of power - a brief history of cray research hardware architectures, L. Davis designing a scalable parallel system - the IBM SP2, T. Agerwala et al. Part 3 Programming and software: an integrated environment for the support of automatic compilation, M. Pantano and H. Zima the design and implementation of the reduction routines in ScaLAPACK, J. Choi et al software tools for parallel computers and workstation clusters, W. Gentzsch Mentat-applying the object-oriented paradigm to parallel processing, A. Grimshaw parallel loop scheduling for high performance computers, K.K. Yue and D.J. Lilja the MPI message-passing interface standard - overview and status, W. Gropp and E. Lusk software engineering considerations in the construction of parallel programmes, J. Schaeffer and D. Szafron. Part 4 Applications: a role for high performance computing in surgery, C. Diegert parallel shortest paths methods for globally optimal trajectories, D.P. Bertsekas et al financial applications and HPF, A. Joubert virtual reality and high performance computing, H. Sowizral collaborative computing, K. Sharma sparse block and cyclic data distributions for matrix computations, R. Asenjo et al parallel image compression with JPEG for multimedia applications, G. Falkemeier and G. Joubert high performance computational chemistry - NWChem and fully distributed parallel applications, M.F. Guest et al.