Grid and parallel computing

A collection of seven long articles, this book comprehensively discusses significant projects in scalable computing in various research organizations around the world.

Circuits and architectures have become more complex in terms of structure, interconnection topology, and data flow.

How to become a parallel programmer by learning the twenty-one essential components of OpenMP.

Die ersten Kapitel konzentrieren sich auf die Informatik und beinhalten informatische Grundbegriffe, Rechnerarchitekturen und ein Performancemodell, OpenMP als Programmierumgebung für Mehrkernrechner und MPI und PVM als Programmiermodelle für Rechner mit verteiltem Speicher.

Continuing the Series on Scalable Computing launched in 1999, this volume presents five articles reviewing significant current developments in the field.

This book assumes familiarity with threads (in a language such as Ada, C#, or Java) and introduces the entity-life modeling (ELM) design approach for certain kinds of multithreaded software.

The first single-source reference covering the state of the art in grid and utility computing economy research This book presents the first integrated, single-source reference on market-oriented grid and utility computing.

Scientific computing has become an indispensable tool in numerous fields, such as physics, mechanics, biology,finance and industry.

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming promises to be the first comprehensive presentation of the principles and tools available for programming multiprocessor machines.

ICA3PP 2000 was an important conference that brought together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the knowledge of parallel and distributed computing.

There is a software gap between the hardware potential and the performance that can be attained using today's software parallel program development tools.

The automatic generation of parallel code from high level sequential description is of key importance to the wide spread use of high performance machine architectures.

A design-oriented text for advanced computer architecture courses, covering parallelism, complexity, power, reliability and performance.

This book aims to provide a deep look into Italian actions taken in some fields of science and high performance computing (HPC), and the Italian effort to bridge the HPC gap with respect to Europe.

The book provides a practical guide to computational scientists and engineers to help advance their research by exploiting the superpower of supercomputers with many processors and complex networks.

Scientific computing has become an indispensable tool in numerous fields, such as physics, mechanics, biology,finance and industry.

This concise, accessible text provides a thorough introduction to quantum computing - an exciting emergent field at the interface of the computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences.

Obstacle Avoidance in Multi-robot Systems: Experiments in Parallel Genetic Algorithms offers a novel framework for solving the path planning problem for robot manipulators.

This volume presents recent advances in computational fluid dynamics.

The complete guide to understanding and implementing multi-core, concurrent, embedded, distributed, and real-time applications with Ada and related technologies.

This book presents the most important parallel algorithms for the solution of linear systems.

Geosciences and in particular numerical weather prediction are demanding the highest levels of available computer power.

Addresses innovations in technology relating to the energy efficiency of a wide variety of contemporary computer systems and networks With concerns about global energy consumption at an all-time high, improving computer networks energy efficiency is becoming an increasingly important topic.

This book contains four review articles in the area of scalable computing.

This book concerns a Josephson device for supercomputers which has extremely low heat dissipation (about 106 times less than semiconductor devices and 103 times less than voltage-based Josephson devices).

There is a software gap between the hardware potential and the performance that can be attained using today's software parallel program development tools.

Despite many years of research and development, parallel programming remains a difficult and specialized task.

This review volume contains a selection of papers by leading experts in the areas of Parallel Image Analysis, 2-D, 3-D Grammars and Automata and Neural Nets and Learning.

The third volume in the Series on Scalable Computing, this book contains five new articles describing significant developments in the field.

Geosciences and, in particular, numerical weather prediction are demanding the highest levels of available computer power.

Meeting the growing demands for speed and quality in rendering computer graphics images requires new techniques.

This book aims to provide a deep look into Italian actions taken in some fields of science and high performance computing (HPC), and the Italian effort to bridge the HPC gap with respect to Europe.

The near future will see the increased use of parallel computing technologies at all levels of mainstream computing.

Parallel Substitution Algorithm (PSA) is a new model for distributed (cellular) computations.

This book assumes familiarity with threads (in a language such as Ada, C#, or Java) and introduces the entity-life modeling (ELM) design approach for certain kinds of multithreaded software.

The book provides a practical guide to computational scientists and engineers to help advance their research by exploiting the superpower of supercomputers with many processors and complex networks.

A design-oriented text for advanced computer architecture courses, covering parallelism, complexity, power, reliability and performance.

Addresses innovations in technology relating to the energy efficiency of a wide variety of contemporary computer systems and networks With concerns about global energy consumption at an all-time high, improving computer networks energy efficiency is becoming an increasingly important topic.

This book brings together current research direction in the mapping of dynamic programming recurrence equations for Knapsack Type problems, which include Unbounded Knapsack Problem, 0/1 Knapsack Problem, Subset Sum Problem, Change Making Problem, onto so-called regular parallel architectures.

This collection of reprints describes a unified treatment of semantics, covering a wide range of notions in parallel languages.

Understanding distributed computing is not an easy task.

This volume presents original articles, reviewing various aspects of scalable computing.

The latest techniques and principles of parallel and grid database processing The growth in grid databases, coupled with the utility of parallel query processing, presents an important opportunity to understand and utilize high-performance parallel database processing within a major database management system (DBMS).