Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Invited Speakers

   1. PVM and MPI: What Else Is Needed for Cluster Computing?

      • Al Geist

      Pages 1-2

   2. Managing Your Workforce on a Computational Grid

      • Miron Livny

      Pages 3-4

   3. Isolating and Interfacing the Components of a Parallel Computing Environment

      • Ewing Lusk

      Pages 5-6

   4. Symbolic Computing with Beowulf-Class PC Clusters

      • Thomas Sterling

      Pages 7-8

   5. High Speed Networks for Clusters, the BIP-Myrinet Experience

      • Bernard Tourancheau

      Pages 9-9

3. Evaluation and Performance

   1. A Benchmark for MPI Derived Datatypes

      • Ralf Reussner, Jesper Larsson Träff, Gunnar Hunzelmann

      Pages 10-17

   2. Working with MPI Benchmarking Suites on ccNUMA Architectures

      • Hermann Mierendorff, Kläre Cassirer, Helmut Schwamborn

      Pages 18-26

   3. Performance Measurements on Dynamite/DPVM

      • K. A. Iskra, Z. W. Hendrikse, G. D. van Albada, B. J. Overeinder, P. M. A. Sloot

      Pages 27-38

   4. Validation of Dimemas Communication Model for MPI Collective Operations

      • Sergi Girona, Jesús Labarta, Rosa M. Badia

      Pages 39-46

   5. Automatic Performance Analysis of Master/Worker PVM Applications with Kpi

      • Antonio Espinosa, Tomas Margalef, Emilio Luque

      Pages 47-55

   6. MPI Optimization for SMP Based Clusters Interconnected with SCI

      • Lars Paul Huse

      Pages 56-63

4. Algorithms

   1. Parallel, Recursive Computation of Global Stability Charts for Liquid Bridges

      • Gábor Domokos, Imre Szeberényi, Paul H. Steen

      Pages 64-71

   2. Handling Graphs According to a Coarse Grained Approach: Experiments with PVM and MPI

      • Isabelle Guérin Lassous, Jens Gustedt, Michel Morvan

      Pages 72-79

   3. Adaptive Multigrid Methods in MPI

      • Fabrizio Baiardi, Sarah Chiti, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci

      Pages 80-87

   4. Multiple Parallel Local Searches in Global Optimization

      • Hermanus P. J. Bolton, Jaco F. Schutte, Albert A. Groenwold

      Pages 88-95

   5. Towards Standard Nested Parallelism

      • J. A. González, C. León, F. Piccoli, M. Printista, J. L. Roda, C. Rodriguez et al.

      Pages 96-103

   6. Pipeline Algorithms on MPI: Optimal Mapping of the Path Planing Problem

      • Daniel González, Francisco Almeida, Luz Marina Moreno, Casiano Rodríguez

      Pages 104-112

   7. Use of PVM for MAP Image Restoration: A Parallel Implementation of the ARTUR Algorithm

      • Gustavo J. Fernández, Julio Jacobo-Berlles, Patricia Borensztejn, Marisa Bauzá, Marta Mejail

      Pages 113-120

   8. Parallel Algorithms for the Least-Squares Finite Element Solution of the Neutron Transport Equation

      • E. Varin, R. Roy, G. Samba

      Pages 121-128

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) are the most frequently used tools for programming according to the message passing paradigm, which is considered one of the best ways to develop parallel applications. This volume comprises 42 revised contributions presented at the Seventh European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, which was held in Balatonfr ed, Hungary, 10 13 September 2000. The conference was organized by the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems of the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This conference was previously held in Barcelona, Spain (1999), Liverpool, UK (1998) and Cracow, Poland (1997). The first three conferences were devoted to PVM and were held at the Technische Universit t M nchen, Germany (1996), Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, France (1995), and University of Rome, Italy (1994). This conference has become a forum for users and developers of PVM, MPI, and other message passing environments. Interaction between those groups has proved to be very useful for developing new ideas in parallel computing and for applying existing ideas to new practical fields. The main topics of the meeting were evaluation and performance of PVM and MPI, extensions and improvements to PVM and MPI, algorithms using the message passing paradigm, and applications in science and engineering based on message passing. The conference included four tutorials and five invited talks on advances in MPI, cluster computing, network computing, grid computing, and SGI parallel computers and programming systems.

• Parallel virtual machine (PVM)
• algorithm
• algorithms
• cluster computing
• distributed systems
• grid computing
• high performance computing
• message passing interface (MPI)
• network computing
• parallel algorithms
• parallel processing
• performance evauation

• Innovative Computing Lab., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  Jack Dongarra

• MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary

  Peter Kacsuk, Norbert Podhorszki

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