Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 8th European Pvm/Mpi Users' Group Meeting, Santorini/Thera, Greece, Septemb (Paperback, 2001)

Invited Speakers.- The SPMD Model: Past, Present and Future.- Building a Foundation for the Next PVM: Petascale Virtual Machines.- Challenges and Successes in Achieving the Potential of MPI.- Programming High Performance Applications in Grid Environments.- NPACI Rocks Clusters: Tools for Easily Deploying and Maintaining Manageable High-Performance Linux Clusters.- Clusters for Data-Intensive Applications in the Grid.- A Comparative Analysis of PVM/MPI and Computational Grids.- Implementation, Evaluation and Performance of PVM/MPI.- MPI-2 One-Sided Communications on a Giganet SMP Cluster.- Effective Communication and File-I/O Bandwidth Benchmarks.- Performance of PENTRAN(TM) 3-D Parallel Particle Transport Code on the IBM SP2 and PCTRAN Cluster.- Layering SHMEM on Top of MPI.- Support for MPI at the Network Interface Level.- The Implementation of One-Sided Communications for WMPI II.- Assessment of PVM Suitability to Testbed Client-Agent-Server Applications.- Extensions and Improvements on PVM/MPI.- TH-MPI: OS Kernel Integrated Fault Tolerant MPI.- CPPvm - C++ and PVM.- Persistent and Non-persistent Data Objects on Top of PVM and MPI.- System Area Network Extensions to the Parallel Virtual Machine.- Adding Dynamic Coscheduling Support to PVM.- A Model to Integrate Message Passing and Shared Memory Programming.- An Architecture for a Multi-threaded Harness Kernel.- Parallel IO Support for Meta-computing Applications: MPI_Connect IO Applied to PACX-MPI.- Tools for PVM and MPI.- TOPPER: A Tool for Optimizing the Performance of Parallel Applications.- Programming Parallel Applications with LAMGAC in a LAN-WLAN Environment.- A Dynamic Load Balancing Architecture for PDES Using PVM on Clusters.- Dynamic Partitioning of the Divide-and-Conquer Scheme with Migration in PVM Environment.- Using Monitoring Techniques to Support the Cooperation of Software Components.- An Integrated Record&Replay Mechanism for Nondeterministic Message Passing Programs.- Fast and Scalable Real-Time Monitoring System for Beowulf Clusters.- Dynamic Process Management in KSIX Cluster Middleware.- Adaptive Execution of Pipelines.- MemTo: A Memory Monitoring Tool for a Linux Cluster.- A Community Databank for Performance Tracefiles.- Review of Performance Analysis Tools for MPI Parallel Programs.- Algorithms Using Message Passing.- PVM Computation of the Transitive Closure: The Dependency Graph Approach.- Parallizing 1-Dimensional Estuarine Model.- A Parallel ADI and Steepest Descent Methods.- Distributed Numerical Markov Chain Analysis.- A Parallel Algorithm for Connected Components on Distributed Memory Machines.- Biharmonic Many Body Calculations for Fast Evaluation of Radial Basis Function Interpolants in Cluster Environments.- Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations and the Parallel Matrix Multiplication.- Collecting Remote Data in Irregular Problems with Hierarchical Representation of the Domain.- Parallel Image Matching on PC Cluster.- Computing Partial Data Cubes for Parallel Data Warehousing Applications.- PDES: A Case Study Using the Switch Time Warp.- Application of MPI in Displacement Based Multilevel Structural Optimization.- Algorithms in Science and Engineering.- Parallelization of Characteristics Solvers for 3D Neutron Transport.- Using a Network of Workstations to Enhance Database Query Processing Performance.- Towards a Portable, Fast Parallel AP3M-SPH Code: HYDRA_MPI.- Efficient Mapping for Message-Passing Applications Using the TTIG Model: A Case Study in Image Processing.- Text Searching on a Heterogeneous Cluster of Workstations.- Simulation of Forest Fire Propagation on Parallel & Distributed PVM Platforms.- A Data and Task Parallel Image Processing Environment.- Evaluating the DIPORSI Framework: Distributed Processing of Remotely Sensed Imagery.- Scalable Unix Commands for Parallel Processors: A High-Performance Implementation.- Low-Cost Parallel Text Retrieval Using PC-Cluster.- Parallelization of Finite Element Package by MPI Library.