Workshop on wide area networks and high performance computing

✍ Scribed by G. Cooperman, E. Jessen, G. Michler (auth.), G. Cooperman, E. Jessen, G. Michler (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 249
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These papers were presented at the workshop on High Performance Computing and Gigabit Wide Area Networks held in September 1998 in Essen, Germany. The aim of the workshop was to analyse the interplay between computer network technology, communication software and the performance of mathematical algorithms used for large scale computations in wide area high speed computer networks. Only through interdisciplinary research with the co-operation of electrical engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists will it be possible to determine the most efficient combinations of parallel algorithms, protocols and network hardware. This workshop brought together scientists working in computer networks, network protocols and numerical and linear algebra and new insights were gained that have previously been unattainable. This volume contains 22 refereed research articles that reflect the exciting new developments in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Distributed high performance computing and gigabit wide area networks....Pages 1-4
Advanced computing and communications research under NSF support....Pages 5-19
SRP: a scalable resource reservation protocol for the internet....Pages 21-35
Differentiated internet services....Pages 37-59
A portable subroutine library for solving linear control problems on distributed memory computers....Pages 61-87
ParaStation user level communication....Pages 89-108
TOP-C: Task-oriented parallel C for distributed and shared memory....Pages 109-117
Metacomputing in the gigabit testbed west....Pages 119-129
High performance metacomputing in a transatlantic wide area application testbed....Pages 131-142
MILESS — A learning and teaching server for multi-media documents....Pages 143-149
Rural educational system network (RESNET): Design and deployment....Pages 151-160
Some performance studies in exact linear algebra....Pages 161-170
Performance analysis of wavefront algorithms on very-large scale distributed systems....Pages 171-187
The DFN gigabitwissenschaftsnetz G-WiN....Pages 189-197
On network resource management for end-to-end QoS....Pages 199-217
A prototype of a combined digital and retrodigitized searchable mathematical journal....Pages 219-235
Gigabit networking in norway infrastructure, applications and projects....Pages 237-256
Low speed ATM over ADSL and the need for high speed networks....Pages 257-267
The NRW metacomputing initiative....Pages 269-282
Design and evaluation of parastation2....Pages 283-295
Broadcast communication in ATM computer networks and mathematical algorithm development....Pages 297-305
Highly available distributed storage systems....Pages 307-330

✦ Subjects

Control Engineering;Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering;Systems and Information Theory in Engineering