High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications contains fully refereed papers from the 15th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing. These papers cover both fundamental and applied topics in HPC: parallel algorithms, distributed systems and architectures, distributed memory and performance, high level applications, tools and solvers, numerical methods and simulation, advanced computing systems, and the emerging area of computational grids.

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications is suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

I Keynote Presentations.- 1 An ASP Model for Large-Scale Genomics in a High-Performance Computing Environment.- 2 Compaq Computer Corporation - Providing the Computing needs for the 21st Century Life Science Industry.- 3 Supercomputer Market Dynamics.- 4 Compaq's Strategy for High Performance Technical Computing.- 5 HPTC - What Really Restrains Our Progress.- 6 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Full Vehicle With High Performance Computing.- 7 HTP Protein Crystallization for Structural Genomics: Case-based reasoning and knowledge discovery.- II Grid Session.- 8 GRIDS: Harnessing Geographically-Separated Resources in a Multi-Organisational Context.- 9 Large-Scale Computation at SHARC-Net.- 10 Particle Physics and the Grid.- 11 The Future of Advanced Networks in Canada.- III Parallel Algorithms.- 12 Nonuniform DFT Applications in MRI: A Novel Algorithm and Parallel Implementation.- 13 Design and Performance Evaluation of Distributed Fast Fourier Transform Approaches.- 14 Scalable Parallel Implementation of Wavelet Transforms.- 15 Parallel Projection Algorithms for Tridiagonal Toeplitz Systems.- 16 A Performance Model of True Fully Adaptive Routing in Hypercubes.- IV Distributed Systems and Architecture.- 17 Security and History Management: Improvements to PBSWeb.- 18 Application Service Providing for Distributed High-Performance Computing.- 19 Use of Tabu Search in the logical topology design of wavelength routed optical networks.- 20 Spider CodeNet: A Multi-Server Code Service Model Design for Computational Grid Support.- V Distributed Memory and Performance.- 21 A dynamic space sharing method for resource management.- 22 An Enhanced Load-Balancing in a Parallel Heterogeneous Workstation Cluster.- 23 Evaluation of XTP and TCP Transport Protocols for Multicast Communications.- 24 Effect of RTCP Bandwidth on Feedback Delay.- VI High Level Applications.- 25 Network Aware Distributed Environment Toolkits.- 26 A Generalized Environment for Distributed Image Processing.- VII Tools and Solvers.- 27 A Multi-Threaded Runtime System for a Multi-Processor/Multi-Node Cluster.- 28 An Object-Oriented Application Framework for Distributed Engineering Analysis and Optimization.- 29 A Web-based Distribution Protocol for Large Scale Analysis and Optimization Applications.- 30 Information Flow control using Versions in Object-Oriented Systems.- 31 A Real-Time Parallel-Processing Imaging System for Radio Astronomy.- VIII Numerical Methods and Simulation.- 32 Monte Carlo Methods Designed for Parallel Computation.- 33 Improving Computer Processing Efficiency by Program Sequencing.- IX Advanced Computing Systems.- 34 CANARIE’s Wavelength Disk Drive Project: Experiences from Phase I and Outlook for the Future.- X Policy.- 35 Network Access Capability to Systems as a Factor in Distributed and Cluster Computing.