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Opportunities and Constraints of Parallel Computing

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Jorge L. C. Sanz

    1. Computer Science Department, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, USA

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Critique of the PRAM Model of Computation

    • Alok Aggarwal
    Pages 1-3

  3. Future Requirements for Effective Use of Parallel Computers

    • David H. Bailey
    Pages 5-7

  4. A Perspective on Shared-memory and Message-memory Architectures

    • Alan Baratz, Kevin McAuliffe
    Pages 9-10

  5. Some Observations on Models of Parallel Computation

    • Gianfranco Bilardi
    Pages 11-13

  6. The Physics of the Parallel Machines

    • Tony F. Chan
    Pages 15-20

  7. Parallel Program Design

    • K. Mani Chandy
    Pages 21-24

  8. The APRAM: Incorporating Asynchrony into the PRAM Model

    • Richard Cole
    Pages 25-28

  9. Architectures for Data Parallel Algorithms

    • Robert Cypher
    Pages 29-32

  10. Algorithm Design for Different Computer Architectures

    • Jack J. Dongarra, Danny C. Sorensen
    Pages 33-35

  11. Neural Networks and Computer Science

    • Jerome A. Feldman
    Pages 37-38

  12. Theoretical Problems in the Design of Tools to Aid in the Construction of Parallel Programs

    • Dennis Gannon
    Pages 39-48

  13. Towards More Flexible Architectures

    • Kourosh Gharachorloo
    Pages 49-53

  14. Towards Better Shared Memory Programming Models

    • Phillip B. Gibbons
    Pages 55-58

  15. New Cost Measures in Graph Embeddings

    • Susanne E. Hambrusch
    Pages 59-61

  16. Parallel Computing: Perspectives and Prospects

    • Michael T. Heath
    Pages 63-66

  17. Challenges in Multiprocessor Architectures

    • John Hennessy
    Pages 67-67

  18. Making Parallel Computers Usable:

    • Leah H. Jamieson
    Pages 69-71

  19. A Position Paper on Parallel Computation

    • Richard M. Karp
    Pages 73-75

  20. Efficient Parallel Algorithms: Theory and Practice

    • Clyde P. Kruskal
    Pages 77-79
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About this book

At the initiative of the IBM Almaden Research Center and the National Science Foundation, a workshop on "Opportunities and Constraints of Parallel Computing" was held in San Jose, California, on December 5-6, 1988. The Steering Committee of the workshop consisted of Prof. R. Karp (University of California at Berkeley), Prof. L. Snyder (University of Washington at Seattle), and Dr. J. L. C. Sanz (IBM Almaden Research Center). This workshop was intended to provide a vehicle for interaction for people in the technical community actively engaged in research on parallel computing. One major focus of the workshop was massive parallelism, covering theory and models of computing, algorithm design and analysis, routing architectures and interconnection networks, languages, and application requirements. More conventional issues involving the design and use of parallel computers with a few dozen processors were not addressed at the meeting. A driving force behind the realization of this workshop was the need for interaction between theoreticians and practitioners of parallel computation. Therefore, a group of selected participants from the theory community was invited to attend, together with well-known colleagues actively involved in parallelism from national laboratories, government agencies, and industry.

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  • Computer Science Department, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, USA

    Jorge L. C. Sanz

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