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Advances in optical technologies have made it possible to implement optical interconnections in future massively parallel processing systems. Photons are non-charged particles, and do not naturally interact. Consequently, there are many desirable characteristics of optical interconnects, e.g. high speed (speed of light), increased fanout, high bandwidth, high reliability, longer interconnection lengths, low power requirements, and immunity to EMI with reduced crosstalk. Optics can utilize...

This three-volume work presents a compendium of current and seminal papers on parallel/distributed processing offered at the 22nd International Conference on Parallel Processing, held August 16-20, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois. Topics include processor architectures; mapping algorithms to parallel systems, performance evaluations; fault diagnosis, recovery, and tolerance; cube networks; portable software; synchronization; compilers; hypercube computing; and image processing and graphics. Computer p...

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running Windows NT or Linux ("Beowulf" machines). The initial MPI Standard document, MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2, contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new f...

Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their high-performance computing resources. Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their high-performance computing resources. PVM i...

Papers, invited talks, and poster sessions from the July 1995 conference address problems and solutions in the field of parallel array algorithms and architectures for special-purpose systems. Topics include scheduling and mapping techniques, design methodologies, array architectures, computer arith

If just a printer is plugged into your PC's parallel port, you're missing a lot of potential uses. The port can support Zip and Syquest drives, scanners, and sophisticated devices like servo motors and microcontrollers. But the complexity of Windows 95 made it tough to take advantage of such interfacing -- until now. This guide clearly shows how to use Visual Basic to access the parallel port. Covering all relevant hardware and programming issues, it's even organized by device so users can quick...

The broadening of interest in parellel computing and transputers is reflected in this text. Topics covered include: concurrent programming; graphics and image processing; and robotics and control. It is based on the proceedings of the 6th Australian Transputer and Occam User Group.

Presents the proceedings of a Transputer and OCCAM User Group Conference, held in Melbourne, in November 1992, discussing recent developments in the field of transputers and parallel applications.

Parallel algorithms Made Easy The complexity of today's applications coupled with the widespread use of parallel computing has made the design and analysis of parallel algorithms topics of growing interest. This volume fills a need in the field for an introductory treatment of parallel algorithms-appropriate even at the undergraduate level, where no other textbooks on the subject exist. It features a systematic approach to the latest design techniques, providing analysis and implementation de...

An all-inclusive survey of the fundamentals of parallel and distributed computing. The use of parallel and distributed computing has increased dramatically over the past few years, giving rise to a variety of projects, implementations, and buzzwords surrounding the subject. Although the areas of parallel and distributed computing have traditionally evolved separately, these models have overlapping goals and characteristics. Parallel and Distributed Computing surveys the models and paradigms in t...

El-Rewini and Lewis were among the first researchers to recognize the problem of resource allocation (scheduling) inherent in parallel and distributed programs - those which consist of interacting tasks, each capable of running on a separate processor. Without proper allocation and ordering of tasks, the parallel and distributed program will not deliver improvements beyond that of a serial program. Until now, much of the literature on this problem has been hidden in obscure research journals. Th...

As multicore and manycore systems become increasingly dominant, handling concurrency will be one of the most crucial challenges developers face. Just as most mainstream programmers have been required to master GUIs and objects, so it will be for concurrency: to achieve the performance they need, developers will have to build and master new libraries, tools, runtime systems, language extensions and above all, new programming best practices. In Effective Concurrency in C++, world-renowned programm...

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Parallel Computer Routing and Communication, PCRCW'97, held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in June 1997.The volume presents 20 revised full papers carefully selected for inclusion in the proceedings; also included are a keynote paper and three short presentations. The volume is divided in topical sections on routing, router and network architectures, messaging layer support, and deadlock issu...

While the architecture of present-day parallel supercomputers is largely based on the concept of a shared memory, with its attendant limitations of common access, advances in semicoductor technology have led to the development of highly parellel computer architectures with decentralized storage and limited connections in which each processor possesses high bandwidth local memory connected to a small number of such architectures, enabling cost-effective high-speed parallel processing for large vo...

The proceedings of the 5th Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems (PART '98) collects some of the exciting and innovative approaches to the problems of high performance computing. At a time when the field is going through a shake-out of commercial solutions, the research presented here gives an insight into new hardware, software and algorithms for achieving high-performance on parallel and reconfigurable computing systems. PART '98 covers networking and processing hardware in...

CUDA for Engineers gives you direct, hands-on engagement with personal, high-performance parallel computing, enabling you to do computations on a gaming-level PC that would have required a supercomputer just a few years ago.   The authors introduce the essentials of CUDA C programming clearly and concisely, quickly guiding you from running sample programs to building your own code. Throughout, you’ll learn from complete examples you can build, run, and modify, complemented by additional projects...

The mastery of distributed applications distributed computation and control, generally called the foundations of the distributed algorithm. The object of this book is to present such foundations as far as synchronization, the key element of parallelism and distribution, is concerned. The work is divided into four chapters, followed by an appendix. An introductory character sets out the different types of synchronization that may be encountered in a parallel application and chapter 2 presents the...