High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Keynote Presentations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Making Computer Design a Science Instead of an Art

      • John L. Gustafson

      Pages 3-14

   3. Scalable Shared Memory and Shared Memory Clustering

      • Marc Snir

      Pages 15-15

   4. High-Performance Computational Grids

      • Ian Foster

      Pages 17-18

   5. High Performance Computing and Computational Chemistry in Canada—Quo Vadis

      • Dennis Salahub

      Pages 19-19

   6. Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing: The Future of High-Performance Computing

      • Daniel Lenoski

      Pages 21-21

   7. Challenges of Future High-End Computing

      • David H. Bailey

      Pages 23-33

3. Computational Physics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Parallel Performance of a Code Using Multidimensional FFTs

      • John A. Zollweg

      Pages 37-45

   3. Object-Oriented Scientific Programming with Fortran 90

      • Charles D. Norton

      Pages 47-58

   4. Alternating Direction Implicit Methods on Distributed and Shared Memory Parallel Computers

      • Robert Rankin, Igor Voronkov

      Pages 59-69

   5. Simulating Galaxy Formation on SMPS

      • Robert Thacker, Hugh Couchman, Frazer Pearce

      Pages 71-82

4. Database Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Data Parallelism in Java

      • Michael Philippsen

      Pages 85-99

   3. A Comparative Study of Soft Real-Time Transaction Scheduling Policies in Parallel Database Systems

      • Sonia Takkar, Sivarama P. Dandamudi

      Pages 101-117

   4. An Age-Threshold Algorithm for Garbage Collection in Log-Structured Arrays and File Systems

      • Jai Menon, Larry Stockmeyer

      Pages 119-132

   5. Thinking Big in a Small World — Efficient Query Execution on Small-Scale SMPs

      • Stefan Manegold, Florian Waas

      Pages 133-146

5. Parallel I/O Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Speeding up Automatic Parallel I/O Performance Optimization in Panda

      • Ying Chen, Marianne Winslett

      Pages 149-162

Major advances in computing are occurring at an ever-increasing pace. This is especially so in the area of high performance computing (HPC), where today's supercomputer is tomorrow's workstation.
High Performance Computing Systems and Applications is a record of HPCS'98, the 12th annual Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications. The quality of the conference was significantly enhanced by the high proportion of keynote and invited speakers. This book presents the latest research in HPC architecture, networking, applications and tools. Of special note are the sections on computational biology and physics.
High Performance Computing Systems and Applications is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on computer architecture and networking, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

• Session
• architectures
• computer
• computer architecture
• database
• database systems
• high performance computing
• network
• performance
• supercomputer

• University of Alberta, Canada

  Jonathan Schaeffer

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