Clusters of workstations/PCs connected by o?-the-shelf networks have become popular as a platform for cost-e?ective parallel computing. Hardware and so- ware technological advances have made this network-based parallel computing platform feasible. A large number of research groups from academia and industry are working to enhance the capabilities of such a platform, thereby improving its cost-e?ectiveness and usability. These developments are facilitating the mig- tion of many existing applications as well as the development of new applications on this platform. Continuing in the tradition of the two previously successful workshops, this 3rd Workshop on Communication, Architecture and Applications for Netwo- based Parallel Computing (CANPC’99) has brought together researchers and practitioners working in architecture, system software, applications and perf- mance evaluation to discuss state-of-the-art solutions for network-based parallel computing systems. This workshop has become an excellent forum for timely dissemination of ideas and healthy interaction on topics at the cutting edge in cluster computing technology. Each submitted paper underwent a rigorous review process, and was assigned to at least 3 reviewers, including at least 2 program committee members. Each paper received at least 2 reviews, most received 3 and some even had 4 reviews.
Author(s): Fusen He, Jie Wu (auth.), Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mario Lauria (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1602
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 232
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Programming Techniques; Computation by Abstract Devices; Operating Systems
Front Matter....Pages -
A Parallel Implementation of the Everglades Landscape Fire Model in Networks of Workstations....Pages 1-15
Adaptation Models for Network-Aware Distributed Computations....Pages 16-31
Prototyping Execution Models for HTMT Petaflop Machine in Java....Pages 32-46
Is It Worth the Flexibility Provided by Irregular Topologies in Networks of Workstations?....Pages 47-61
Performance Evaluation of the Multimedia Router with MPEG-2 Video Traffic....Pages 62-76
A Scalable Flow Control Algorithm for the Fast Messages Communication Library....Pages 77-90
High Performance Sockets and RPC over Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture....Pages 91-107
The Scheduled Transfer (ST) Protocol....Pages 108-121
The NIP Parallel Object-Oriented Computational Model....Pages 122-136
The Aleph Toolkit: Support for Scalable Distributed Shared Objects....Pages 137-149
Combining Adaptive and Deterministic Routing: Evaluation of a Hybrid Router....Pages 150-164
Deadlock-Free Routing in Irregular Networks with Dynamic Reconfiguration....Pages 165-180
Implementing Application-Specific Cache-Coherence Protocols in Configurable Hardware....Pages 181-195
Supporting Shared Memory and Message Passing on Clusters of PCs with a SMiLE....Pages 196-210
Low Latency Message-Passing for Reflective Memory Networks....Pages 211-224
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