Programming and Applications

Name: Programming and Applications
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ISBN: 9780130137852

ISBN-10: 0130137855

ISBN-13: 9780130137852

Edition: 2000

Authors: Rajkumar Buyya

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Clustering involves using two or more systems working together and simultaneously to handle variable workloads or to provide continued support should one fail. This book introduces the programming and application issues raised.

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List price: $69.67
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 6/24/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 664
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering; and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft Pty Ltd., a spin-off company of the University, commercialising its innovations in Grid and Cloud Computing. He received "Research Excellence Awards" from the University of Melbourne for productive and quality research in computer science and software engineering in 2005 and 2008, and the "2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing" for pioneering the economic paradigm for utility-oriented distributed computing platforms such as…






Preface



Programming Environments and Development Tools



Parallel Programming Models and Paradigms



Introduction



A Cluster Computer and its Architecture



Parallel Applications and Their Development



Code Granularity and Levels of Parallelism



Parallel Programming Models and Tools



Methodical Design of Parallel Algorithms



Parallel Programming Paradigms



Programming Skeletons and Templates



Conclusions



Bibliography



Parallel Programming Languages and Environments



Introduction



Early Mechanisms



Shared Memory Environments



Distributed Memory Environments



Parallel Declarative Environments



Summary



Bibliography



MPI and PVM Programming



Introduction



Comparison of MPI and PVM



The All Pairs Shortest Path Problem



The MPI Programming Environment



The PVM Programming Environment



Porting Hints



Summary



Bibliography



Linking Message-Passing Environments



Interoperability Between Message-Passing Interfaces



An Overview of the PLUS Library



System Architecture



Adding New Message-Passing Environments



Performance Results



Related Work



Summary



Bibliography



Active Objects



Objects in Cluster-Based Parallel Systems



Active Versus Passive Objects



Objects and Atomicity



BaLinda K Objects



Speculative Processing



Summary



Bibliography



Using Scoped Behavior to Optimize Data Sharing Idioms



Introduction



Motivation: Data Sharing Idioms



Aurora: A Distributed Shared Data System



Implementation Overview



Experience with Parallel Programs



Discussion and Related Work



Concluding Remarks



Bibliography



Component-Based Development Approach



Introduction



Component-Based Application Development



Advanced Features



Reusing Simulation Software in a Distributed Setting



Comparison Between Approaches



Concluding Remarks



Bibliography



Hypercomputing with LiPS



Generative Communication



Using LiPS



The LiPS Runtime Systems



The LiPS Development System



Bibliography



An Efficient Tuple Space Programming Environment



Introduction



Tuple Space Programming



Compilation Environment



Run-time Environment



Extensions



Conclusions



Bibliography



Debugging Parallelized Code



Introduction



Automatic Parallelization



The Debugging Problem



Debugging with Code Liberation



Experimental Results



Conclusions



Bibliography



WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide-Area Applications



Introduction



WebOS Overview



Naming



Persistent Shared State



Security and Authentication



Process Control



Rent-A-Server



Related Work



Conclusions



Bibliography



Java for High Performance Computing



Distributed-Object Computing



Introduction



CORBA



Java RMI



DCOM



Voyager



A Simple Performance Measurement



Bibliography



Java and Different Flavors of Parallel Programming Models



Introduction



Java Threads--Built-in Support for Parallelism and Concurrency



Parallel Programming Models



Summary



Bibliography



The HPspmd Model and its Java Binding



Introduction



Java Language Binding



Java Packages for HPspmd Programming



Programming Examples



Issues in the Language Design



Projects in Progress



Summary



Bibliography



Web-Based Parallel Computing with Java



Introduction



Web-Based Parallel Computing



Comparing Cluster with Web-Based Parallel Computing



Examples of Internet-Based Parallel Computing



Can Java be Used for Web-Based Parallel Computing?



Problems to be Solved in Web-Based Parallel Computing



A Case Study: The JET Platform



Some Performance Results



Conclusions



Bibliography



Algorithms and Applications



Object-Oriented Implementation of Parallel Genetic Algorithms



Introduction



Short Overview of GA Systems



Object-Oriented Approach to PGAs



Classes Representing Individuals



Local Genetic Operations



Island Model



Global Population Model



Load Balancing



File and I/O Operations



PGA Application Framework



Sample Results



Concluding Remarks



Bibliography



Application-Specific Load Balancing on Heterogeneous Systems



Introduction



System Overview



Implementation of a Complex FDTD Equation



Load Balancing



Analysis



Conclusions



Bibliography



Time Management in Parallel Simulation



Introduction



Major Issues of Parallel Simulation



Principles of Parallel Simulation



Conservative Synchronization Protocols



Conclusion



Bibliography



Hardware System Simulation



Introduction



NEPSi



Discussion



Bibliography



Real-Time Resource Management Middleware: Open Systems and Applications



Introduction



Architecture of Dynamic QoS Management Middleware



Adaptive Resource Allocation



Experiences with the Adaptive Resource Management Services



Conclusions



Bibliography



Data Placement in Shared-Nothing Database Systems



Introduction



Data Placement



Declustering



Placement



Re-Distribution



Dynamic Re-Organization



Summary



Bibliography



Parallel Inference with Very Large Knowledge Bases



Introduction



Shruti: A Structured Connectionist Reasoning System



Mapping Shruti onto Parallel Machines



Shruti on the CM-5--Design and Implementation



Shruti-CM5--A Mathematical Analysis



Shruti-CM5-Experiments with Large Knowledge Bases



Conclusion



Bibliography



MaRT: Lazy Evaluation for Parallel Ray Tracing



Introduction



On Ray Tracing Parallelization Techniques



MaRT: a Lazy Ray Tracer



Parallel MaRT



Concluding Remarks



Bibliography



Fast Content-Based Image Retrieval



Introduction



Image Feature Extraction



Dynamic Image Indexing



Image Similarity Measurement



Image Searching



Parallel Implementation



Experimental Results



Parallel Image Feature Extraction - PVM Vs. DSM



Conclusion



Bibliography



Climate Ocean Modeling



Introduction



Model Description



Parallel Partition on Irregular Geometries



Ocean Modeling on Various Systems



Scientific Results



Summary



Bibliography



Computational Electromagnetics



Introduction



Physical Optics Method



Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method



Finite-Element Integral-Equation Coupled Method



Conclusions



Bibliography



CFD Simulation: A Case Study in Software Engineering



Introduction



TfC - a State-of-the-Art Industrial CFD Package



Requirements for Parallel CFD Simulation



Design and Implementation of ParTfC



Object Oriented Design of Scientific Software



Productive Use of Parallel Scientific Computing Software



Bibliography



Quantum Reactive Scattering Calculations



Introduction



The Many Body Problem: Description, Decomposition, and Solutions



Parallelization Strategies



Parallel Implementations on CRAY T3E



Parallel Implemention on SGI Origin 2000



Parallel Implementation on a Metacomputer



Concluding Remarks



Bibliography



Biomedical Applications Modeling



Introduction



The Chromosome Reconstruction Problem



PVM Algorithms for Chromosome Reconstruction



Heart Rate Variability and Kolmogorov Entropy



A Parallel Algorithm for K[subscript 2] Entropy Computation using PVM



Optimal Scaling Region Determination Algorithm



Experimental Results



Conclusions



Bibliography


A Glossary


Index