Supercomputing

✍ Scribed by Kenneth W. Neves, Janusz S. Kowalik (auth.), Janusz S. Kowalik (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 415
• Series: NATO ASI Series 62
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Supercomputing is an important science and technology that enables the scientist or the engineer to simulate numerically very complex physical phenomena related to large-scale scientific, industrial and military applications. It has made considerable progress since the first NATO Workshop on High-Speed Computation in 1983 (Vol. 7 of the same series). This book is a collection of papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Trondheim, Norway, in June 1989. It presents key research issues related to: - hardware systems, architecture and performance; - compilers and programming tools; - user environments and visualization; - algorithms and applications. Contributions include critical evaluations of the state-of-the-art and many original research results.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Supercomputing: Key Issues and Challenges....Pages 3-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Supercomputing Facilities for the 1990s....Pages 43-54
Research and Development in the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Program....Pages 55-69
Supercomputing at KFA Jülich: Experiences and Applications on CRAY X-MP....Pages 71-85
Supercomputing: Experience With Operational Parallel Processing....Pages 87-95
The Evolving Supercomputer Environment at the San Diego Supercomputer Center....Pages 97-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
SUPRENUM: Architecture and Applications....Pages 111-118
Advanced Architecture and Technology of the NEC SX-3 Supercomputer....Pages 119-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
PROCESS SCHEDULING: Parallel Languages Versus Operating Systems....Pages 131-140
SARA: A Cray Assembly Language Speedup Tool....Pages 141-156
Modeling the Memory of the Cray2 for Compile Time Optimization....Pages 157-171
On the Parallelization of Sequential Programs....Pages 173-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The Role of Graphics Super-Workstations in a Supercomputing Environment....Pages 191-203
Issues in Scientific Visualization....Pages 205-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Requirements for Multidisciplinary Design of Aerospace Vehicles on High Performance Computers....Pages 227-237
Supercomputer Performance Evaluation: The PERFECT Benchmarks....Pages 239-248
Measurements of Problem-Related Performance Parameters....Pages 249-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
A Parallel Iterative Method for Solving 3-D Elliptic Partial Differential Equations....Pages 267-277
Solving Linear Equations by Extrapolation....Pages 279-293
Super Parallel Algorithms....Pages 295-305
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Vectorization and Parallelization of Transport Monte Carlo Simulation Codes....Pages 307-324
Very Large Database Applications of the Connection Machine System....Pages 325-340
Data Structures for Parallel Computation on Shared-Memory Machines....Pages 341-355
Parallel Evaluation of Some Recurrence Relations by Recursive Doubling....Pages 357-365
An Asynchronous Newton-Raphson Method....Pages 367-376
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Interconnection Networks for Highly Parallel Supercomputing Architectures....Pages 379-396
Computer Networking for Interactive Supercomputing....Pages 397-408
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
You’re Not Waiting, You’re Doing I/O....Pages 411-415
Back Matter....Pages 417-429

✦ Subjects

Processor Architectures; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution