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Handbook of parallel computing: models, algorithms and applications

Book information

Publisher
Chapman & Hall
Year
2007
ISBN
9781584886235, 1584886234
LCC
QA76.58 .R34 2007
Open Library ID
OL12313757M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11527025 bytes)
Series
Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer & Information Science Series
Edition
1
Pages
1172\1172
Time added
2009-08-06 05:14:26

Description

The ability of parallel computing to process large data sets and handle time-consuming operations has resulted in unprecedented advances in biological and scientific computing, modeling, and simulations. Exploring these recent developments, the Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications provides comprehensive coverage on all aspects of this field. The first section of the book describes parallel models. It covers evolving computational systems, the decomposable bulk synchronous model, parallel random access machine-on-chip architecture, the parallel disks model, mobile agents, fault-tolerant computing, hierarchical performance modeling, the partitioned optical passive star network, and the reconfigurable mesh model. The subsequent section on parallel algorithms examines networks of workstations, grid and packet scheduling, the derandomization technique, isosurface extraction and rendering, suffix trees, and mobile computing algorithmics. The final part of the text highlights an array of problems and offers ways to combat these challenges. This volume provides an up-to-date assessment of the models and algorithms involved in applying parallel computing to a variety of fields, from computational biology to wireless networking.

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