High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

by Kent, Robert D.; Sands, Todd W.

• ISBN13: 9781402073892
• ISBN10: 1402073895
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications contains fully refereed papers from the 15th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing. These papers cover both fundamental and applied topics in HPC: parallel algorithms, distributed systems and architectures, distributed memory and performance, high level applications, tools and solvers, numerical methods and simulation, advanced computing systems, and the emerging area of computational grids. High Performance Computing Systems and Applications is suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part I Keynote Presentations
1 An ASP Model for Large-Scale Genomics in a High-Performance Computing Environment	3	(2)
Jamie Cuticchia, L. Zaifman, S. Wallace, G. Hulbert and G. W. Silk
2 Compaq Computer Corporation - Providing the Computing needs for the 21st Century Life Science Industry	5	(2)
Bruce Foster
3 Supercomputer Market Dynamics	7	(2)
Phillip Tannenbaum
4 Compaq's Strategy for High Performance Technical Computing	9	(2)
Ira Weiss
5 HPTC - What Really Restrains Our Progress	11	(8)
Bevin Brett
6 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Full Vehicle With High Performance Computing	19	(2)
Ren-Jye Yang
7 HTP Protein Crystallization for Structural Genomics: Case-based reasoning and knowledge discovery	21	(4)
Igor Jurisica
Part II Grid Session
8 GRIDS: Harnessing Geographically-Separated Resources in a Multi-Organisational Context	25	(8)
Anand Nat rajan, Marty A. Humphrey and Andrew S. Grimshaw
9 Large-Scale Computation at SHARC-Net	33	(2)
Hugh Couchman
10 Particle Physics and the Grid	35	(2)
Randall J. Sobie
11 The Future of Advanced Networks in Canada	37	(4)
Andy Bjerring
Part III Parallel Algorithms
12 Nonuniform DFT Applications in MRI: A Novel Algorithm and Parallel Implementation	41	(14)
Daniel J. Lizotte, Eric Aubanel, Virendra C. Bhavsar
13 Design and Performance Evaluation of Distributed Fast Fourier Transform Approaches	55	(10)
Robert D. Kent and Neeta Majmudar
14 Scalable Parallel Implementation of Wavelet Transforms	65	(10)
Aysegul Cuhadar and Sinan Tasdoken
15 Parallel Projection Algorithms for Tridiagonal Toeplítz Systems	75	(12)
L. E. Garey, R. E. Shaw and J. Zhang
16 A Performance Model of True Fully Adaptive Routing in Hypertubes	87	(18)
A. Khonsari, H. Sarbazi-Azad and M. Ould-Khaoua
Part IV Distributed Systems and Architecture
17 Security and History Management: Improvements to PBSWeb	105	(14)
George Ma, Victor Salamon and Paul Lu
18 Application Service Providing for Distributed High-Performance Computing	119	(10)
C. -K. Lee, C. Hochberger and D. Tavangarian
19 Use of Tabu Search in the logical topology design of wavelength routed optical networks	129	(16)
Kannan Achan, Yash Aneja and Subir Bandyopadhyay
20 Spider CodeNet: A Multi-Server Code Service Model Design for Computational Grid Support	145	(20)
Robert D. Kent, Xiaohong Yu, Sheng Zhóng, Michael Hui Zhang and Mordechay Schlesinger
Part V Distributed Memory and Performance
21 A dynamic space sharing method for resource management	165	(10)
Gabriel Mateescu
22 An Enhanced Load-Balancing in a Parallel Heterogeneous Workstation Cluster	175	(10)
M.A.R. Dantas and F. M. Lopes
23 Evaluation of XTP and TCP Transport Protocols for Multicast Communications	185	(8)
M.A.R. Dantas and G. Jardini
24 Effect of RTCP Bandwidth on Feedback Delay	193	(10)
Randa El-Marakby
Part VI High Level Applications
25 Network Aware Distributed Environment Toolkits	203	(8)
A. K. Aggarwal
26 A Generalized Environment for Distributed Image Processing	211	(18)
Haresh S. Bhatt and A. K. Aggarwal
Part VII Tools and Solvers
27 A Multi-Threaded Runtime System for a Multi-Processor/Multi-Node Cluster	229	(14)
Christopher Jason Morrone, Jose Nelson Amaral, Guy Tremblay and Guang R. Gao
28 An Object-Oriented Application Framework for Distributed Engineering Analysis and Optimization	243	(14)
B. Chen, D. Bouhemhem, A. Ndiaye, F. Guibault B. Ozell and J. V. Trépanier
29 Web-based Distribution Protocol for Large Scale Analysis and Optimization Applications	257	(14)
Qun Zhou, B. Mahdavi, D. J. Liu, F. Guibault, B. Ozell and J. V. Trepanier
30 Information Flow control using Versions in Object-Oriented Systems	271	(14)
A. Fellah, I. Rahwan and A. Maamir
31 A Real-Time Parallel-Processing imaging System for Radio Astronomy	285	(16)
A.G. Willis, J. F. Lightfoot, G. J. Hoveg and P. E. Dewdney
Part VIII Numerical Methods and Símulatíon
32 Monte Carlo Methods Designed for Parallel Computation	301	(12)
Sheldon Opps and Jeremy Schofield
33 Improving Computer Processing Efficiency by Program sequencing	313	(18)
Myron Hlynka and Marvin Mandelbaum
Part IX Advanced Computing Systems
34 CANARIE's Wavelength Disk Drive Project: Experiences from Phase I and Outlook for the Future	331	(18)
Bill St. Arnaud, René Hatem, Rick Ingram, Doron Nussbaum, Jorg-Rudiger Sack, André Cormier, Régis Desmeules and Guy Turcotte
Part X Policy
35 Network Access Capability to Systems as a Factor in Distributed and Cluster Computing	349	(2)
Todd W. Sands and Robert D. Kent
Index	351