High performance computing systems and applications. Selected papers of the 14th international conference, HPCS, Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, B. C., Canada, June 14--17, 2000 (Q2768896)

The articles of this volume will not reviewed individually. The 12th conference 1998 has been reviewed (see Zbl 0905.00076).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINETable of contents: Part I, Keynote Presentation. C3ca: The State of Our Union, \textit{A. Pollard}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart II, Distributed Systems and Architecture. A Performance Evaluation of the ACORN Architecture, \textit{V. C. Bhavsar}, \textit{Ali A. Ghorbani} and \textit{S. Marsh}; Towards a High Performance Extensible Grid Architecture, \textit{K. Krauter}, \textit{M. Maheswaran}; On the Feasibility of Time-Parallel Discrete Event Simulations over Local and Wide Area Networks, \textit{I. Nikolaidis}; A Mobile Agent-based Approach to Web-based Distributed Computing, \textit{Q. H. Mahmoud}; A Dynamic Scheme in Support of Scalability in General Purpose Distributed Virtual Environments, \textit{R. Fortier} and \textit{D. Kent}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart III, Numerical Methods and Simulation. Accuracy of Monte Carlo Method for Solution of Linear Algebraic Equations Using PLFG and rand(), \textit{C. J. Kenneth Tan}, \textit{M. I. Cases Villalba} and \textit{V. Alexandrov}; Numerical Simulation of the Growth of \(\text{Ga}_x\text{In}_{1-x}\text{Sb}\) by the Travelling Heater Method, \textit{S. Dost}, \textit{R. A. Meric}, \textit{B. Lent} and \textit{R. F. Redden}; High Performance Computation for Time Domain Electromagnetic Simulations, \textit{E. Q. Hu}, \textit{M. Fujii}, \textit{P. P. M. So}, \textit{W. Liu}, \textit{J. W. Park} and \textit{W. J. R. Hoefer}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart IV, Network Algorithms and Protocols. Modelling of Adaptive Wormhole-Routed Hypercubes in the Presence of Broadcast Traffic, \textit{A. Shahrabi}, \textit{L. M. Mackenzie} and \textit{M. Ould-Khaoua}; Frame-Based Fair Queueing: A Hardware Design for ATM Networks, \textit{H. Fattah}, \textit{M. Watheq El-Kharashi} and \textit{F. Elguibaly}; Analysis of Frame-Based Fair Queueing under Self-Similar Traffic, \textit{H. Fattah} and \textit{F. Elguibaly}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart V, Computer Architecture I. Reducing Cache Miss Penalty Using I-Fetch Instructions, \textit{S. Okamoto} and \textit{T. Kazuyoshi}; Reducing Indirect Mispredictions of Two-STAGE Branch Predictors, \textit{Y. Chu} and \textit{M. R. Itô}; Data Prefetching Using Dual Processors, \textit{See-Mu Kim} and \textit{S. Manoharan}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart VI. Computer Architecture II. THOR: A Multi-purpose Commodity Component Supercomputer, \textit{J. L. Pinfold}; A New Methodology for Stack Operations Folding for Java Microprocessors, \textit{M. Watheq El-Kharashi}, \textit{F. Elguibaly} and \textit{K. F. Li}; Communication Prediction in Message-Passing Multiprocessors, \textit{A. Afsahi} and \textit{N. J. Dimopoulos}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart VII. Distributed Memory. A Preliminary Study of Cache-Only Write Detection Technique for Nautilus DSM, \textit{M. D. Mario} and \textit{G. Lino de Campos}; Analysis of a Lightweight Transport Protocol for High-Performance Computing, \textit{M. A. R. Dantas}, \textit{M. V. G. R. Lima} and \textit{M. R. A. Rodriguez}; The GENESIS Cluster Operating System Supporting Parallel Processing, \textit{A. Goscinski}, \textit{M. Hobbs} and \textit{J. Silcock}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart VII. High Performance Computing Applications I. Using a HPC System for the Simulation of the Trajectories of Solar Wind Particles in the Ionosphere, \textit{G. V. G. Baranoski} and \textit{J. G. Rokne}; Parallel MHD for Large-scale Plasma Simulation, \textit{R. Rankin} and \textit{S. Roupassov}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart IX. Parallel Algorithms. Parallel Broadcasting Scheme for Approximate String Matching with K-Mismatches, \textit{Jin Hwan Park} and \textit{Keqin Li}; Organization and Evaluation of Parallel Logic Simulator on a PC Cluster, \textit{K. Wada}, \textit{T. Murakami} and \textit{Y. Hamada}; Block Based Compression Storage Expected Performance, \textit{S. Vassiliadis}, \textit{S. Cotofana} and \textit{P. Stathis}; Distributing Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms for Grid Computing, \textit{R. D. Kent}, \textit{N. Majmudar} and \textit{M. Schlesinger}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart X. High Performance Computing Applications II. Netchaches on Engineering and Commercial Applications, \textit{E. D. Moreno}; Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics studies of peptide-membrane binding, \textit{C. M. Shepherd}, \textit{H. J. Vogel} and \textit{A. H. Juffer}; An Analysis of Immediate Memory: The free-recall task, \textit{D. R. J. Franklin} and \textit{D. J. K. Mewhort}; Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Separated Flow and Convective Heat Transfer, \textit{N. Djilali} and \textit{A. Suksangpanomrung}.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart XI. Astrophysics Applications. High Performance Computational Astrophysics with PKDGRAV/GASOLINE, \textit{J. Stadel}, \textit{J. Wadsley} and \textit{D. C. Richardson}.