Advances in High Performance Computing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Trends and Emerging Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Performance and Scalability of Database Servers: an Introduction

      • Ashutosh Tiwary, Janusz Kowalik, Bob Abarbanel, John Lixvar, Vish Jumani

      Pages 3-25

   3. Evolution of the HPC Market

      • Erich Strohmaier, Jack J. Dongarra, Hans W. Meuer, Horst D. Simon

      Pages 27-44

   4. Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing and the Silicon Graphics S2MP Architecture

      • Daniel E. Lenoski, James P. Laudon

      Pages 45-59

   5. Exemplar S-and X-Class: 2nd Generation of High-Performance Systems with a Global Shared Memory Architecture

      • Frank P. E. Baetke

      Pages 61-76

   6. Oracle Solutions for Database Management System in Parallel Processing Environment

      • Enzo Genovese

      Pages 77-86

3. Algorithms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. PARJEN96: A Parallel Software Tool for Automatic Differentiation

      • L. Grandinetti, D. Conforti, L. De Luca, M. Mancini, R. Musmanno

      Pages 89-113

   3. VLSI Solvers for Some PDE Problems

      • M. Vajteršic

      Pages 115-131

   4. A Comparison Between Domain Decomposition and Fully Implicit Approaches for a Parallel 3D Upwind Flow Solver

      • E. Bucchignani, G. Iaccarino

      Pages 133-148

   5. Hyper-Systolic Processing on the Quadrics: Improving Inter-Processor Communication by Simulated Annealing

      • Paolo Palazzari, Thomas Lippert, Klaus Schilling

      Pages 149-166

4. Software Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Resource Management Tools in Cluster Computing

      • Wolfgang Gentzsch

      Pages 169-183

   3. Explicit Management of Memory Hierarchy

      • Jarek Nieplocha, Robert Harrison, Ian Foster

      Pages 185-199

   4. Granularity Control in the LOGFLOW Parallel Prolog System

      • P. Kacsuk

      Pages 201-218

   5. An Environment for Structured Parallel Programming

      • B. Bacci, B. Cantalupo, M. Danelutto, S. Orlando, D. Pasetto, S. Pelagatti et al.

      Pages 219-234

   6. Extending Data-Parallel Languages for Irregularly Structured Applications

      • G. Bandera, G. P. Trabado, E. L. Zapata

      Pages 235-251

   7. Automatic Coarse-Grained Parallelization Techniques

      • M. Cosnard, E. Jeannot

      Pages 253-270

5. Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop High Performance Computing: Technology and Application, held in Cetraro, Italy from 24 to 26 of June, 1996. The main purpose of the Workshop was to discuss some key scientific and technological developments in high performance computing, identify significant trends and defme desirable research objectives. The volume structure corresponds, in general, to the outline of the workshop technical agenda: general concepts and emerging systems, software technology, algorithms and applications. One of the Workshop innovations was an effort to extend slightly the scope of the meeting from scientific/engineering computing to enterprise-wide computing. The papers on performance and scalability of database servers, and Oracle DBMS reflect this attempt We hope that after reading this collection of papers the readers will have a good idea about some important research and technological issues in high performance computing. We wish to give our thanks to the NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division for being the principal sponsor for the Workshop. Also we are pleased to acknowledge other institutions and companies that supported the Workshop: European Union: European Commission DGIII-Industry, CNR: National Research Council of Italy, University of Calabria, Alenia Spazio, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali, ENEA: Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard-Convex, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, and Silicon Graphics-Cray Research. Editors January 1997 vii LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Ecole Nonnale Su¢rieure de Lyon, 69364 Abarbanel. Robert M.

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