High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications contains a selection of fully refereed papers presented at the 14th International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications held in Victoria, Canada, in June 2000. This book presents the latest research in HPC Systems and Applications, including distributed systems and architecture, numerical methods and simulation, network algorithms and protocols, computer architecture, distributed memory, and parallel algorithms. It also covers such topics as applications in astrophysics and space physics, cluster computing, numerical simulations for fluid dynamics, electromagnetics and crystal growth, networks and the Grid, and biology and Monte Carlo techniques.
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 Presentation.- 1 C3.ca: The State of Our Union.- II Distributed Systems and Architecture.- 2 A Performance Evaluation of the ACORN Architecture.- 3 Towards a High Performance Extensible Grid Architecture.- 4 On the Feasibility of Time-Parallel Discrete Event Simulations over Local and Wide Area Networks.- 5 A Mobile Agent-based Approach to Web-based Distributed Computing.- 6 A Dynamic Scheme in Support of Scalability in General Purpose Distributed Virtual Environments.- III Numerical Methods and Simulation.- 7 Accuracy of Monte Carlo Method for Solution of Linear Algebraic Equations Using PLFG and rand().- 8 Numerical Simulation of the Growth of GaxIn1?xSb by the Travelling Heater Method.- 9 High Performance Computation for Time Domain Electromagnetic Simulations.- IV Network Algorithms and Protocols.- 10 Modelling of Adaptive Wormhole-Routed Hypercubes in the Presence of Broadcast Traffic.- 11 Frame-Based Fair Queueing: A Hardware Design for ATM Networks.- 12 Analysis of Frame-Based Fair Queueing under Self-Similar Traffic.- V Computer Architecture.- 13 Reducing Cache Miss Penalty Using I-Fetch Instructions.- 14 Reducing Indirect Mispredictions of Two-STAGE Branch Predictors.- 15 Data Prefetching Using Dual Processors.- VI Computer Architecture.- 16 THOR: A Multi-purpose Commodity Component Supercomputer.- 17 A New Methodology for Stack Operations Folding for Java Microprocessors.- 18 Communication Prediction in Message-Passing Multiprocessors.- VII Distributed Memory.- 19 A Preliminary Study of Cache-Only Write Detection Technique for Nautilus DSM.- 20 Analysis of a Lightweight Transport Protocol for High-Performance Computing.- 21 The GENESIS Cluster Operating System Supporting Parallel Processing.- VIII High Performance Computing Applications.- 22 Usinga HPC System for the Simulation of the Trajectories of Solar Wind Particles in the Ionosphere.- 23 Parallel MHD for Large-scale Plasma Simulation.- IX Parallel Algorithms.- 24 Parallel Broadcasting Scheme for Approximate String Matching with K-Mismatches.- 25 Organization and Evaluation of Parallel Logic Simulator on a PC Cluster.- 26 Block Based Compression Storage Expected Performance.- 27 Distributing Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms for Grid Computing.- X High Performance Computing Applications.- 28 Netcaches on Engineering and Commercial Applications.- 29 Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics studies of peptide-membrane binding.- 30 An Analysis of Immediate Memory: The free-recall task.- 31 Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Separated Flow and Convective Heat Transfer.- XI Astrophysics Applications.- 32 High Performance Computational Astrophysics with PKDGRAV/GASOLINE.