Practical Parallel Computing
Status and Prospects
Published on 3. February 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-471-93182-9 (ISBN)
Description
Presenting the results from internationally renowned research centres worldwide, this text provides actual experiences in solving computationally intensive problems, often with real-time constraints and on a variety of specialist machines, and describes leading-edge systems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 194 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-93182-9 (9780471931829)
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Content
Parallel computing in the 1980s - one person's view, P.C. Messina; ES-Kit - an object-oriented distributed system, A.Chatterjee et al; the EMMA2 multiprocessor operating system, E. Appiani et al; portable tools for FORTRAN parallel programming, S.P. Kumar and I.R. Philips; multiprocessors and run-time compilation, J. Saltz et al; synchronization and load imbalance effects in distributed memory multi-processor systems, D.C. Marinescu and J.R. Rice; physical computation, G.C. Fox; LAPACK - a portable linear algebra library for high-performance computers, J. Demmel; numerical simulation of incompressible fluid flows, G. Anagnostou et al; the use of the CAPE environment in the simulation of rock fracturing, M.G. Norman et al; analysis of multidimensional images on the connection machine system, G. Marcenaro and M. Tistarelli; aeroelastic applications of the connection machine, S.R. Sipcic and T. Westbrook; achievements and prospects for parallel computing, G.C. Fox.