Frontiers'99: The Seventh Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation : February 21-25, 1999, Annapolis, Maryland : ProceedingsProceedings from the February 1999 symposium illustrate the path that massively parallel technology follows in going from long range research to strategic resource to commercial application. Thirty-six contributions address such topics as parallel numerical computation and applications, optical computing, quantum computing, petaflops, and configurable computing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
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Scalability Analysis of Multidimensional Wavefront Algorithms on Large | 4 |
A System for Evaluating Performance and Cost of SIMD Array Designs | 16 |
Design TradeOffs of LowCost Multicomputer Network Switches | 25 |
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algorithm analysis application ARC3D architecture array elements asymptotically optimal bandwidth benchmark block buffer cache Charm++ cluster collective I/O compiler components Computer Science configuration cost Cray J90 Cray T3E cycle data distribution data items data parallel data sieving destination processor Distributed Computing domain efficient embedding equations evaluation execution Figure Fortran function global graph High Performance HIVE Hurricane Opal hypercube implementation Intel Paragon interface interprocedural iteration Java latency layout load balancing machines memory mesh method Mflops module NEC SX-4 noncontiguous number of processors operations optimal packet Parallel and Distributed parallel computers partitioning problem Proc procedure random recursion redistribution redundant region ROMIO runtime scalability Section segments simulation source processor space nodes speedup star graphs step Supercomputing switch task parallelism techniques theHIVE Theorem tion update values variables vector volume rendering workstation