Advances in High Performance Computing, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997 NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 3 Series, Vol. 30

Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop High Performance Computing: Technology and Application, held in Cetraro, Italy from 24 to 26 of June, 1996. The main purpose of the Workshop was to discuss some key scientific and technological developments in high performance computing, identify significant trends and defme desirable research objectives. The volume structure corresponds, in general, to the outline of the workshop technical agenda: general concepts and emerging systems, software technology, algorithms and applications. One of the Workshop innovations was an effort to extend slightly the scope of the meeting from scientific/engineering computing to enterprise-wide computing. The papers on performance and scalability of database servers, and Oracle DBMS reflect this attempt We hope that after reading this collection of papers the readers will have a good idea about some important research and technological issues in high performance computing. We wish to give our thanks to the NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division for being the principal sponsor for the Workshop. Also we are pleased to acknowledge other institutions and companies that supported the Workshop: European Union: European Commission DGIII-Industry, CNR: National Research Council of Italy, University of Calabria, Alenia Spazio, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali, ENEA: Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard-Convex, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, and Silicon Graphics-Cray Research. Editors January 1997 vii LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Ecole Nonnale Su¢rieure de Lyon, 69364 Abarbanel. Robert M.

1. Trends and Emerging Systems.- Performance and Scalability of Database Servers: An Introduction.- Evolution of the HPC Market.- scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing and the Silicon Graphics S2MP Architecture.- Exemplar S- and X-Class: 2nd Generation of High-Performance Systems with a Global Shared Memory Architecture.- Oracle Solutions for Database Management System in Parallel Processing Environment.- 2. Algorithms.- PARJEN96: A Parallel Software Tool for Automatic Differentiation.- VLSI Solvers for some PDE Problems.- A Comparison between Domain Decomposition and Fully Implicit Approaches for a Parallel 3D Upwind Flow Solver.- Hyper-Systolic Processing on the Quadrics: Improving Inter-Processor Communication by Simulated Annealing.- 3. Software Technology.- Resource Management Tools in Cluster Computing.- Explicit Management of Memory Hierarchy.- Granularity Control in the Logflow Parallel Prolog System.- An Environment for Structured Parallel Programming.- Extending Data-Parallel Languages for Irregularly Structured Applications. Parallelization of Sparse Matrix Algebra and Unstructured Domains Solvers.- Automatic Coarse-Grained Parallelization Techniques.- 4. Applications.- High-Performance Computing for the Computer Aided Design of Financial Products.- Applying High Performance Computing in Electromagnetics.- Aspects of Image Processing for Multimedia Applications.- Parallel 3D Finite Element Computation of Unsteady Flows Past a Sphere.

The book discusses some key scientific and technological developments in high performance computing, identifies significant trends, and defines desirable research objectives. It covers general concepts and emerging systems, software technology, algorithms and applications. Coverage includes hardware, software tools, networks and numerical methods, new computer architectures, and a discussion of future trends. Beyond purely scientific/engineering computing, the book extends to coverage of enterprise-wide, commercial applications, including papers on performance and scalability of database servers and Oracle DBM systems. Audience: Most papers are research level, but some are suitable for computer literate managers and technicians, making the book useful to users of commercial parallel comp