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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 295)
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It was the aim of the conference to present issues in parallel computing to a community of potential engineering/scientific users. An overview of the state-of-the-art in several important research areas is given by leading scientists in their field. The classification question is taken up at various points, ranging from parametric characterizations, communication structure, and memory distribution to control and execution schemes. Central issues in multiprocessing hardware and operation, such as scalability, techniques of overcoming memory latency and synchronization overhead, as well as fault tolerance of communication networks are discussed. The problem of designing and debugging parallel programs in a user-friendly environment is addressed and a number of program transformations for enhancing vectorization and parallelization in a variety of program situations are described. Two different algorithmic techniques for the solution of certain classes of partial differential equations are discussed. The properties of domain-decomposition algorithms and their mapping onto a CRAY-XMP-type architecture are investigated and an overview is given of the merit of various approaches to exploiting the acceleration potential of multigrid methods. Finally, an abstract performance modeling technique for the behavior of applications on parallel and vector architectures is described.
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Parallel Computing in Science and Engineering
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Book Title: Parallel Computing in Science and Engineering
Book Subtitle: 4th International DFVLR Seminar on Foundations of Engineering Sciences, Bonn, FRG, June 25/26, 1987
Editors: Rüdiger Dierstein, Dieter Müller-Wichards, Hans-Martin Wacker
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18923-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-18923-7Published: 11 May 1988
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-38848-7Published: 02 July 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 188
Topics: Mathematics of Computing, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Computer System Implementation, Programming Techniques, Complexity, Mathematical Methods in Physics