High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

✍ Scribed by Jamie Cuticchia, L. Zaifman, S. Wallace, G. Hulbert, G. W. Silk (auth.), Robert D. Kent, Todd W. Sands (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 727
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications contains fully refereed papers from the 15th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing. These papers cover both fundamental and applied topics in HPC: parallel algorithms, distributed systems and architectures, distributed memory and performance, high level applications, tools and solvers, numerical methods and simulation, advanced computing systems, and the emerging area of computational grids.

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications is suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An ASP Model for Large-Scale Genomics in a High-Performance Computing Environment....Pages 3-3
Compaq Computer Corporation - Providing the Computing Needs for the 21st Century Life Science Industry....Pages 5-5
Supercomputer Market Dynamics....Pages 7-7
Compaq’s Strategy for High Performance Technical Computing....Pages 9-9
HPTC - What Really Restrains Our Progress....Pages 11-18
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of A Full Vehicle With High Performance Computing....Pages 19-19
HTP Protein Crystallization for Structural Genomics....Pages 21-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Grids: Harnessing Geographically-Separated Resources in a Multi-Organisational Context....Pages 25-32
Large-Scale Computation at SHARC-Net....Pages 33-33
Particle Physics and the Grid....Pages 35-35
The Future of Advanced Networks in Canada....Pages 37-37
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Nonuniform DFT Applications in MRI: A Novel Algorithm and Parallel Implementation....Pages 41-54
Design and Performance Evaluation of Distributed Fast Fourier Transform Approaches....Pages 55-64
Scalable Parallel Implementation of Wavelet Transforms....Pages 65-74
Parallel Projection Algorithms for Tridiagonal Toeplitz Systems....Pages 75-86
A Performance Model of True Fully Adaptive Routing in Hypercubes....Pages 87-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Security and History Management: Improvements to Pbsweb....Pages 105-118
Application Service Providing for Distributed High-Performance Computing....Pages 119-128
Use of Tabu Search in the Logical Topology Design of Wavelength Routed Optical Networks....Pages 129-143
Spider Codenet: A Multi-Server Code Service Model Design for Computational Grid Support....Pages 145-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
A Dynamic Space Sharing Method for Resource Management....Pages 165-174
An Enhanced Load Balancing in a Parallel Heterogenous Workstation Cluster....Pages 175-183
Evaluation of XTP and TCP Transport Protocols for Multicast Communications....Pages 185-192
Effect of RTCP Bandwidth on Feedback Delay....Pages 193-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Network Aware Distributed Environment Toolkits....Pages 203-209
A Generalized Environment for Distributed Image Processing....Pages 211-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
A Multithreaded Runtime System For a Multiprocessor/Multinode Cluster....Pages 229-242
An Object-Oriented Application Framework for Distributed Engineering Analysis and Optimization....Pages 243-255
A Web-Based Distribution Protocol for Large Scale Analysis and Optimization Applications....Pages 257-270
Information Flow Control Using Version in Object-Oriented Systems....Pages 271-284
A Real-Time Parallel-Processing Imaging System for Radio Astronomy....Pages 285-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Monte Carlo Methods Designed for Parallel Computation....Pages 301-311
Improving Computer Processing Efficiency by Sequencing....Pages 313-327
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Canarie’s Wavelength Disk Drive Project: Experiences From Phase I and Outlook for the Future....Pages 331-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Network Access Capability to Systems as A Factor in Distributed and Cluster Computing....Pages 349-349
Back Matter....Pages 351-351

✦ Subjects

Processor Architectures; Theory of Computation