By Buyya, Raijkumar (editor)
 

Hardcover; 664 Pages Published by Prentice Hall, USA Date Published: 05/1999 ISBN: 0130137855

Table of Contents

Preface

 

I Programming Environments and Development Tools 

1 Parallel Programming Models and Paradigms 

2 Parallel Programming Languages and Environments

3 MPI and PVM Programming 

4 Linking Message-Passing Environments 

5 Active Objects 

6 Using Scoped Behavior to Optimize Data Sharing Idioms 

7 Component-Based Development Approach 

8 Hypercomputing with LiPS 

9 An Efficient Tuple Space Programming Environment 

10 Debugging Parallelized Code 

11 WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide-Area Applications 

 

II Java for High Performance Computing 

 

12 Distributed-Object Computing 

13 Java and Different Flavors of Parallel Programming Models 

14 The HPspmd Model and its Java Binding 

15 Web-Based Parallel Computing with Java 

III Algorithms and Applications 

 

16 Object-Oriented Implementation of Parallel Genetic Algorithms 

17 Application-Specific Load Balancing on Heterogeneous Systems 

18 Time Management in Parallel Simulation 

19 Hardware System Simulation 

20 Real-Time Resource Management Middleware: Open Systems and Applications 

21 Data Placement in Shared-Nothing Database Systems 

22 Parallel Inference with Very Large Knowledge Bases 

23 MaRT: Lazy Evaluation for Parallel Ray Tracing 

24 Fast Content-Based Image Retrieval 

25 Climate Ocean Modeling 

26 Computational Electromagnetics 

27 CFD Simulation: A Case Study in Software Engineering 

28 Quantum Reactive Scattering Calculations 

29 Biomedical Applications Modeling