Annual review of scalable computing. Volume 4 / editor Yuen Chung Kwong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yuen, C. K.

Series:

Series on scalable computing ; 4.

Series on scalable computing ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

High performance computing.

Parallel processing (Electronic computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Scalable computing

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Singapore University Press : World Scientific, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of seven long articles, this book comprehensively discusses significant projects in scalable computing in various research organizations around the world. It represents the quantitative and qualitative growth of work in the area. <br><i>Contents:</i><ul><li>Experiences with Shared Virtual Memory on System Area Network Clusters: System Simulation, Implementation, and Emulation</li><li>Average-Case Scalability Analysis of Parallel Computations</li><li>Parallel IO Prefetching and Caching</li><li>A C++/Tuple-Lock Implementation for Distributed Objects</li><li>Static Data Allocation a

Contents:

Contents ; 1 Experiences with Shared Virtual Memory on System Area Network Clusters:System Simulation Implementation and Emulation ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 Overall Methodology and Results ; 1.2.1 System Simulation ; 1.2.2 System Implementation ; 1.2.3 System Emulation

1.3 System Simulation 1.3.1 Simulation Environment ; 1.3.2 Methodology ; 1.3.3 Applications ; 1.3.4 Effects of Communication Parameters ; 1.3.5 Limitations on Application Performance ; 1.3.6 Degree of Clustering ; 1.4 System Implementation

1.4.1 Network Interface and SVM Protocol Extensions 1.4.2 Experimental Testbed ; 1.4.3 Applications ; 1.4.4 Results ; 1.4.5 Remaining bottlenecks ; 1.5 System Emulation ; 1.5.1 Emulation infrastructure ; 1.5.2 Impact of Fast Interconnection Networks

1.5.3 Impact of Wide CC-NUMA Nodes 1.6 Discussion on Methodology ; 1.7 Related Work ; 1.8 Conclusions ; 1.9 Acknowledgments ; 1.10 Bibliography ; 2 Average-Case Scalability Analysis of Parallel Computations ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.1.1 Motivation ; 2.1.2 Overview of the Chapter

2.2 Scalability of Parallel Computations 2.2.1 Isoefficiency Scalability ; 2.2.2 Isospeed Scalability ; 2.2.3 Average-Case Scalability ; 2.3 Task Precedence Graphs on Multiprocessors ; 2.3.1 A Probabilistic Model ; 2.3.2 Independent Tasks ; 2.3.3 Dependent Tasks

2.3.4 Iterative Computations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611929657

9781281929655

1281929654

9789812777430

9812777431

OCLC:

879023834