Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface 4th European PVM/MPI User's Group Meeting Cracow, Poland, November 3-5, 1997, Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bubak, Marian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dongarra, Jack (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wasniewski, Jerzy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1332
• Subjects: Software engineering.; Architecture, Computer.; Computer programming.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computers.; Arithmetic and logic units, Computer.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Computer System Implementation.; Programming Techniques.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Computation by Abstract Devices.; Arithmetic and Logic Structures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users' Group Meeting, PVM/MPI '97, held in Cracow, Poland in November 1997. Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface are the most popular tools for progra...

Table of Contents:

• Why are PVM and MPI so different?
• Comparison of PVM and MPI performance in short-range molecular dynamics simulation
• Analyzing the performance of MPI in a cluster of workstations based on fast ethernet
• A comparison of MPI performance on different MPPs
• Predicting the performance of injection communication patterns on PVM
• Evaluation of the communication performance on a parallel processing system
• Evaluating personal high performance computing with PVM on Windows and LINUX environments
• Experimental evaluation of PVM group communication
• ARCH, an object oriented MPI-based library for asynchronous and loosely synchronous parallel system programming
• An extension to MPI for distributed computing on MPPs
• Distributed & cooperative applications in PVM
• Heterogeneous MPI application interoperation and process management under PVMPI
• YLC, A C++ Linda system on top of PVM
• Advanced capabilities in PVM 3.4
• Beyond PVM 3.4: What we've learned, what's next, and why
• Using PVM to build an interface to support Cooperative Work in a distributed systems environment
• Towards portable message passing in Java: Binding MPI
• Control activities in message passing environment
• Global semaphores in a parallel programming environment
• A synchronizing shared memory: Model and programming implementation
• Communication in multi-physics applications
• Embedding SCI into PVM
• Implementation of MPI on NEC's SX-4 multi-node architecture
• Breaking the curse of dynamics by task migration: Pilot experiments in the polder metacomputer
• PVM on the RHODOS distributed operating system
• A function to dynamic workload allocation in distributed applications
• Integrating PVaniM into WAMM for monitoring meta-applications
• Evaluation of parallel application's behavior in message passing environment
• Message-passing program development by ensemble
• Interaction patterns detection in PVM programs to support simulation
• The PALLAS parallel programming environment
• OMIS 2.0 - a universal interface for monitoring systems
• In quest of the bottleneck - monitoring parallel database systems
• Tools and auxiliary subsystems in PVM
• Debugging message passing programs using invisible message tags
• On the PVM/MPI computations of dynamic programming recurrences
• Parallel Branch and Bound algorithms for integer and mixed integer linear programming problems under PVM
• PVM-implementation of the PGC method with displacement decomposition
• Numerical integration on distributed-memory parallel systems
• PINEAPL: A European project on Parallel Industrial Numerical Applications and Portable Libraries
• Block-cyclic array redistribution on networks of workstations
• Performance of CAP-specified linear algebra algorithms
• Implementing parallel SBS-type linear solvers using ALWAN
• Highly parallel cryptographic attacks
• Implementation of some multiprocessor algorithms for ODES using PVM
• Parallel graph-partitioning using the mob heuristic
• Truncated block Newton and quasi-Newton methods for sparse systems of nonlinear equations. Experiments on parallel platforms
• An MPI driven parallelization strategy for different computing platforms: A case study
• Parallel version of a quantum classical molecular dynamics code for complex molecular and biomolecular systems
• Running large-scale air pollution models on message passing machines
• PVM experiences in developing the MIDAS parallel database system
• Developing non-local iterative parallel algorithms for GIS on Cray T3D using MPI
• Dynamic optimisation of a distributed VR system by network-balancing
• Molecular dynamics on hybrid memory machines
• Offering parallelism to a sequential database management system on a network of workstations using PVM
• Mixing simulations: Tracking strongly deforming fluid volumes in 3D flows
• Parallel crew scheduling on workstation networks using PVM
• MOPS - parallel environment for simulation of electronic circuits using physical models of semiconductor devices
• Message handling in parallel radiance
• Parallelization of neutron transport solvers
• Parallel rendering of radiance on distributed memory system by PVM
• Parallel turbulence simulation: Resolving the inertial subrange of Kolmogorov's spectra.