Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Instruction Parallelism to Cluster Computing

✍ Scribed by J. Kovács, P. Kacsuk (auth.), Peter Kacsuk, Gabriele Kotsis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 567
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Instruction Parallelism toCluster Computing is the proceedings of the third Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems organized jointly by the Austrian Computer Society and the MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute. This book contains 18 full papers and 12 short papers from 14 countries around the world, including Japan, Korea and Brazil. The paper sessions cover a broad range of research topics in the area of parallel and distributed systems, including software development environments, performance evaluation, architectures, languages, algorithms, web and cluster computing.
This volume will be useful to researchers and scholars interested in all areas related to parallel and distributed computing systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The DIWIDE Distributed Debugger on Windows NT and UNIX Platforms....Pages 3-12
Cobra — the Library for Building Reliable Applications in Distributed Environment....Pages 13-22
Design and Implementation of a Distributed Monitor for Semi-on-Line Monitoring of VISUAL MP Applications....Pages 23-32
Quality of Distributed Applications....Pages 33-36
Performance Technology for Complex Parallel and Distributed Systems....Pages 37-46
Evaluating Performance of OpenMP and MPI on the SGI Origin 2000 with Benchmarks of Realistic Problem Sizes....Pages 47-56
Performance Tuning of Parallel Realtime Voice Communication Software....Pages 57-60
Clue — A Tool for Cluster Evaluation....Pages 61-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Efficient Run Time Optimization with Static Single Assignment....Pages 67-76
On Classification Heuristics of Probabilistic System-Level Fault Diagnostic Algorithms....Pages 77-86
Scalable Classification of Large Data Sets by Parallel Genetic Programming....Pages 87-90
A New Heuristic for the Process-Processor Mapping Problem....Pages 91-94
FIFO Buffers in tie Sauce....Pages 95-104
Parameterized M-Expression Semantics of Parallel Procedures....Pages 105-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
A Novel Execution Model for Logflow on a Hybrid Multithreaded Architecture....Pages 117-126
The Nop Parallel Programming Model....Pages 127-136
Thread Management Mechanisms of Cefos....Pages 137-146
The Parallel Video Server Sesame-KB....Pages 147-150
The Poor Man’s Supercomputer....Pages 151-154
An Improvement Technique for Hybrid Protocol for Software Distributed Shared Memory....Pages 155-164
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Cache-Only Write-Detection for Nautilus DSM....Pages 165-168
Hive: Implementing a Virtual Distributed Shared Memory in Java....Pages 169-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Analyzing Algebraic Curves by Cluster Computing....Pages 175-184
A Novel Programming Strategy Considering Portable Wireless Nodes in a Heterogeneous Cluster....Pages 185-194
Quality-Aware Proxy Caching for Web Videos....Pages 195-204
Cluster Command & Control (C3) Tools Suite....Pages 205-214
Searching the Web as an Elemental Semi-Structured Information System of Today....Pages 215-223
Prototyping Cluster-Based Distributed Applications....Pages 225-228
Resource Management in a Jini-Based Metacomputing Framework....Pages 229-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-233

✦ Subjects

Processor Architectures; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Theory of Computation; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters