Computational Science is the scienti?c discipline that aims at the development and understanding of new computational methods and techniques to model and simulate complex systems. The area of application includes natural systems – such as biology, envir- mental and geo-sciences, physics, and chemistry – and synthetic systems such as electronics and ?nancial and economic systems. The discipline is a bridge b- ween ‘classical’ computer science – logic, complexity, architecture, algorithms – mathematics, and the use of computers in the aforementioned areas. The relevance for society stems from the numerous challenges that exist in the various science and engineering disciplines, which can be tackled by advances made in this ?eld. For instance new models and methods to study environmental issues like the quality of air, water, and soil, and weather and climate predictions through simulations, as well as the simulation-supported development of cars, airplanes, and medical and transport systems etc. Paraphrasing R. Kenway (R.D. Kenway, Contemporary Physics. 1994): ‘There is an important message to scientists, politicians, and industrialists: in the future science, the best industrial design and manufacture, the greatest medical progress, and the most accurate environmental monitoring and forecasting will be done by countries that most rapidly exploit the full potential ofcomputational science’. Nowadays we have access to high-end computer architectures and a large range of computing environments, mainly as a consequence of the enormous s- mulus from the various international programs on advanced computing, e.g.
Author(s): Vincent Jolivet, Dimitri Plemenos, Patrick Poulingeas (auth.), Peter M. A. Sloot, Alfons G. Hoekstra, C. J. Kenneth Tan, Jack J. Dongarra (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2330
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 1115
Tags: Theory of Computation; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Mathematics of Computing; Computer Communication Networks; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Mathematical and Computational Physics
Inverse Direct Lighting with a Monte Carlo Method and Declarative Modelling....Pages 3-12
Light Meshes—Original Approach to Produce Soft Shadows in Ray Tracing....Pages 13-21
Adding Synthetic Detail to Natural Terrain Using a Wavelet Approach....Pages 22-31
The New Area Subdivision Methods for Producing Shapes of Colored Paper Mosaic....Pages 32-41
Fast Algorithm for Triangular Mesh Simplification Based on Vertex Decimation....Pages 42-51
Geometric Determination of the Spheres which Are Tangent to Four Given Ones....Pages 52-61
Metamorphosis of Non-homeomorphic Objects....Pages 62-71
Bézier surfaces of minimal area....Pages 72-81
Transformation of a Dynamic B-spline Curve Into Piecewise Power Basis Representation....Pages 82-91
Rapid Generation of C 2 Continuous Blending Surfaces....Pages 92-101
Interactive Multi-volume Visualization....Pages 102-110
Efficient Implementation of Multiresolution Triangle Strips....Pages 111-120
The Hybrid Octree: Towards the Definition of a Multiresolution Hybrid Framework....Pages 121-130
Interactive Hairstyle Modeling Using a Sketching Interface....Pages 131-140
Orthogonal Cross Cylinder Using Segmentation Based Environment Modeling....Pages 141-150
Helping the Designer in Solution Selection: Applications in CAD....Pages 151-160
Polar Isodistance Curves on Parametric Surfaces....Pages 161-170
Total Variation Regularization for Edge Preserving 3D SPECT Imaging in High Performance Computing Environments....Pages 171-180
Computer Graphics Techniques for Realistic Modeling, Rendering and Animation of Water. Part I: 1980–88....Pages 181-190
Computer Graphics Techniques for Realistic Modeling, Rendering and Animation of Water. Part II: 1989–1997....Pages 191-200
A Case Study in Geometric Constructions....Pages 201-210
Interactive versus Symbolic Approaches to Plane Loci Generation in Dynamic Geometry Environments....Pages 211-218
Deformations Expressed as Displacement Maps An Easy Way to Combine Deformations....Pages 219-228
A Property on Singularities of NURBS Curves....Pages 229-238
Interactive Deformation of Irregular Surface Models....Pages 239-248
Bandwidth Reduction Techniques for Remote Navigation Systems....Pages 249-257
OSCONVR: An Interactive Virtual Reality Interface to an Object-Oriented Database System for Construction Architectural Design....Pages 258-267
Internet Client Graphics Generation Using XML Formats....Pages 268-274
The Compression of the Normal Vectors of 3D Mesh Models Using Clustering....Pages 275-284
Semi-metric Formal 3D Reconstruction from Perspective Sketches....Pages 285-294
Reconstruction of Surfaces from Scan Paths....Pages 295-304
Extending Neural Networks for B-Spline Surface Reconstruction....Pages 305-314
Computational Geometry and Spatial Meshes....Pages 315-324
A Combinatorial Scheme for Developing Efficient Composite Solvers....Pages 325-334
Parallel and Fully Recursive Multifrontal Supernodal Sparse Cholesky....Pages 335-344
Parallel Iterative Methods in Modern Physical Applications....Pages 345-354
Solving Unsymmetric Sparse Systems of Linear Equations with PARDISO....Pages 355-363
A Multipole Approach for Preconditioners....Pages 364-373
Orthogonal Method for Linear Systems. Preconditioning....Pages 374-382
Antithetic Monte Carlo Linear Solver....Pages 383-392
Restarted Simpler GMRES Augmented with Harmonic Ritz Vectors....Pages 393-402
A Projection Method for a Rational Eigenvalue Problem in Fluid-Structure Interaction....Pages 403-411
On Implementation of Vector Gauss Method for Solving Large-Scale Systems of Index 1 Differential-Algebraic Equations....Pages 412-421
One Class of Splitting Iterative Schemes....Pages 422-431
Filtration-Convection Problem: Spectral-Difference Method and Preservation of Cosymmetry....Pages 432-441
A Comparative Study of Dirichlet and Neumann Conditions for Path Planning through Harmonic Functions....Pages 442-451
Adaptation and Assessment of a High Resolution Semi-Discrete Numerical Scheme for Hyperbolic Systems with Source Terms and Stiffness....Pages 452-460
The Computational Modeling of Crystalline Materials Using a Stochastic Variational Principle....Pages 461-469
Realization of the Finite Mass Method....Pages 470-479
Domain Decomposition Using a 2- Level Correction Scheme....Pages 480-489
Computational Models for Materials with Shape Memory: Towards a Systematic Description of Coupled Phenomena....Pages 490-499
Calculation of Thermal State of Bodies with Multilayer Coatings....Pages 500-509
An Irregular Grid Method for Solving High- Dimensional Problems in Finance....Pages 510-519
On Polynomial and Polynomial Matrix Interpolation....Pages 520-527
Comparing the Performance of Solvers for a Bioelectric Field Problem....Pages 528-537
Iteration Revisited Examples From a General Theory....Pages 538-547
A New Prime Edge Length Crystallographic FFT....Pages 548-557
TopoMon: A Monitoring Tool for Grid Network Topology....Pages 558-567
Logistical Storage Resources for the Grid....Pages 568-577
Towards the Design of an Active Grid....Pages 578-587
An Active Reliable Multicast Framework for the Grids....Pages 588-597
A Parallel Quasi-Monte Carlo Method for Solving Systems of Linear Equations....Pages 598-608
Mixed Monte Carlo Parallel Algorithms for Matrix Computation....Pages 609-618
Numerical Experiments with Monte Carlo Methods and SPAI Preconditioner for Solving System of Linear Equations....Pages 619-627
Measuring the Performance of a Power PC Cluster....Pages 628-634
Monte Carlo Techniques for Estimating the Fiedler Vector in Graph Applications....Pages 635-645
Peer-to-Peer Computing Enabled Collaboration....Pages 646-654
Working Towards Strong Wireless Group Communications: The Janus Architecture....Pages 655-664
Towards Mobile Computational Application Steering: Visualizing The Spatial Characteristics of Metropolitan Area Wireless Networks....Pages 665-670
Hungarian Supercomputing Grid....Pages 671-678
The Construction of a Reliable Multipeer Communication Protocol for Distributed Virtual Environments.....Pages 679-686
Process Oriented Design for Java: Concurrency for All....Pages 687-687
Collaborative Computing and E-learning....Pages 688-694
CSP Networking for Java (JCSP.net) ....Pages 695-708
The MICROBE Benchmarking Toolkit for Java: a Component-Based Approach....Pages 709-719
Distributed Peer-to-Peer Control in Harness....Pages 720-728
A Comparison of Conventional Distributed Computing Environments and Computational Grids....Pages 729-738
Developing Grid Based Infrastructure for Climate Modeling....Pages 739-747
A Real Application of the Model Coupling Toolkit....Pages 748-757
Simplifying the Task of Generating Climate Simulations and Visualizations....Pages 758-766
On the Computation of Mass Fluxes for Eulerian Transport Models from Spectral Meteorological Fields....Pages 767-776
Designing a Flexible Grid Enabled Scientific Modeling Interface....Pages 777-786
Parallel Contact Detection Strategies for Cable and Membrane Structures....Pages 787-796
A Parallel Domain Decomposition Algorithm for the Adaptive Finite Element Solution of 3-D Convection-Diffusion Problems....Pages 797-805
Parallel Performance in Multi-physics Simulation....Pages 806-815
A Parallel Finite Volume Method for Aerodynamic Flows....Pages 816-823
An Extensible Compiler for Creating Scriptable Scientific Software....Pages 824-833
Guard: A Tool for Migrating Scientific Applications to the .NET Framework....Pages 834-843
Lithium: A Structured Parallel Programming Environment inJa va....Pages 844-853
Using the TrustME Tool Suite for Automatic Component Protocol Adaptation....Pages 854-863
Integrating CUMULVS into AVS/Express....Pages 864-873
Monitoring System for Distributed Java Applications....Pages 874-883
A Concept of Portable Monitoring of Multithreaded Programs....Pages 884-893
dproc - Extensible Run-Time Resource Monitoring for Cluster Applications....Pages 894-903
A Comparison of Counting and Sampling Modes of Using Performance Monitoring Hardware....Pages 904-912
Debugging Large-Scale, Long-Running Parallel Programs....Pages 913-922
Performance Prediction for Parallel Iterative Solvers....Pages 923-932
Improving Data Locality Using Dynamic Page Migration Based on Memory Access Histograms....Pages 933-942
Multiphase Mesh Partitioning for Parallel Computational Mechanics Codes....Pages 943-952
The Shared Memory Parallelisation of an Ocean Modelling Code Using an Interactive Parallelisation Toolkit....Pages 953-962
Dynamic Load Equilibration for Cyclic Applications in Distributed Systems....Pages 963-971
3G Medicine - The Integration of Technologies....Pages 972-981
Architecture of Secure Portable and Interoperable Electronic Health Records....Pages 982-994
Designing for change and reusability - Using XML, XSL, and MPEG-7 for developing professional health Information systems....Pages 995-1002
Personal LocationMessaging....Pages 1003-1011
The E-CARE Project - Removing the Wires....Pages 1012-1018
Automatic Generation of Efficient Adjoint Code for a Parallel Navier-Stokes Solver....Pages 1019-1028
Switchback: Profile-Driven Recomputation for Reverse Mode....Pages 1029-1038
Reducing the Memory Requirement in Reverse Mode Automatic Differentiation by Solving TBR Flow Equations....Pages 1039-1048
The Implementation and Testing of Time-minimal and Resource-optimal Parallel Reversal Schedules....Pages 1049-1058
Automatic Differentiation for Nonlinear Controller Design....Pages 1059-1068
Computation of Sensitivity Information for Aircraft Design by Automatic Differentiation....Pages 1069-1076
Performance Issues for Vertex Elimination Methods in Computing Jacobians using Automatic Differentiation....Pages 1077-1086
Making Automatic Differentiation Truly Automatic: Coupling PETSc with ADIC....Pages 1087-1096
Improved Interval Constraint Propagation for Constraints on Partial Derivatives....Pages 1097-1105
