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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782557403321

Titolo

Annual review of scalable computing . Volume 4 [[electronic resource] /] / editor Yuen Chung Kwong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : Singapore University Press, : World Scientific, c2002

ISBN

1-281-92965-4

9786611929657

981-277-743-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Series on scalable computing ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

YuenC. K

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

High performance computing

Parallel processing (Electronic computers)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents               ; 1 Experiences with Shared Virtual Memory on System Area Network Clusters:System Simulation Implementation and Emulation                                                                                                                              ; 1.1 Introduction                       ; 1.2 Overall Methodology and Results                                          ; 1.2.1 System Simulation                              ; 1.2.2 System Implementation                                  ; 1.2.3 System Emulation

1.3 System Simulation                            1.3.1 Simulation Environment                                   ; 1.3.2 Methodology                        ; 1.3.3 Applications                         ; 1.3.4 Effects of Communication Parameters                                                ; 1.3.5 Limitations on Application Performance                                                   ; 1.3.6 Degree of Clustering                                 ; 1.4 System Implementation

1.4.1 Network Interface and SVM Protocol Extensions                                                          1.4.2 Experimental Testbed                                 ; 1.4.3 Applications                         ; 1.4.4 Results                    ; 1.4.5 Remaining bottlenecks                                  ; 1.5 System Emulation                           ; 1.5.1 Emulation infrastructure                                     ; 1.5.2 Impact of Fast Interconnection Networks

1.5.3 Impact of Wide CC-NUMA Nodes                                         1.6 Discussion on Methodology                                    ; 1.7 Related Work                       ; 1.8 Conclusions                      ; 1.9 Acknowledgments                          ; 1.10 Bibliography                        ; 2 Average-Case Scalability Analysis



of Parallel Computations                                                                   ; 2.1 Introduction                       ; 2.1.1 Motivation                       ; 2.1.2 Overview of the Chapter

2.2 Scalability of Parallel Computations                                               2.2.1 Isoefficiency Scalability                                      ; 2.2.2 Isospeed Scalability                                 ; 2.2.3 Average-Case Scalability                                     ; 2.3 Task Precedence Graphs on Multiprocessors                                                    ; 2.3.1 A Probabilistic Model                                  ; 2.3.2 Independent Tasks                              ; 2.3.3 Dependent Tasks

2.3.4 Iterative Computations

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of seven long articles, this book comprehensively discusses significant projects in scalable computing in various research organizations around the world. It represents the quantitative and qualitative growth of work in the area. <br><i>Contents:</i><ul><li>Experiences with Shared Virtual Memory on System Area Network Clusters: System Simulation, Implementation, and Emulation</li><li>Average-Case Scalability Analysis of Parallel Computations</li><li>Parallel IO Prefetching and Caching</li><li>A C++/Tuple-Lock Implementation for Distributed Objects</li><li>Static Data Allocation a