High Performance Computing : Technology, Methods and Applications

by Dongarra, Jack J.; Joubert, G. R.; Grandinetti, L.; Kowalik, J.

• ISBN13: 9780444821638
• ISBN10: 0444821635
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780080553917, 9780444821638
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Serials
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Summary

High Performance Computing is an integrated computing environment for solving large-scale computational demanding problems in science, engineering and business. Newly emerging areas of HPC applications include medical sciences, transportation, financial operations and advanced human-computer interface such as virtual reality. High performance computing includes computer hardware, software, algorithms, programming tools and environments, plus visualization.The book addresses several of these key components of high performance technology and contains descriptions of the state-of-the-art computer architectures, programming and software tools and innovative applications of parallel computers. In addition, the book includes papers on heterogeneous network-based computing systems and scalability of parallel systems.The reader will find information and data relative to the two main thrusts of high performance computing: the absolute computational performance and that of providing the most cost effective and affordable computing for science, industry and business. The book is recommended for technical as well as management oriented individuals.

Table of Contents

Editorial Preface

General. Preface, about high performance computing and this book

Heterogeneous network-based computing systems

Data communication and high performance computing

Scalability of parallel systems: efficiency versus execution time

Architectural features affecting total scalability of parallel systems

Hardware Systems. Trends in high-performance computer architecture

The CONVEX Exemplar SPP1200 - a new scalable parallel system with a virtual shared memory architecture

Hardware performance of the VPP500 parallel supercomputer

The balance of power - a brief history of cray research hardware architectures

Designing a scalable parallel system: the IBM SP2

Programming and Software. An integrated environment for the support of automatic compilation

The design and implementation of the reduction routines in ScaLAPACK

Software tools for parallel computers and workstation clusters

Mentat-applying the object-oriented paradigm to parallel processing

Parallel loop scheduling for high performance computers

The MPI message-passing interface standard: overview and status

Software engineering considerations in the construction of parallel programs

Applications

A role for high performance computing in surgery

Parallel shortest paths methods for globally optimal trajectories

Financial applications and HPF

Virtual reality and high performance computing

Collaborative computing

Sparse block and cyclic data distributions for matrix computations

Parallel image compression with JPEG for multimedia applications

High performance computational chemistry; NWChem and fully distributed parallel applications

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