Research Catalog

Title

Parallel and distributed computing handbook / Albert Y. Zomaya, editor in chief.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Zomaya, Albert Y.

Description

xxx, 1199 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Computer engineering series

Uniform Title

Computer engineering series.

Subject

• Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
• Electronic data processing > Distributed processing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Parallel and Distributed Computing: The Scene, the Props, the Players / Albert Y. Zomaya -- Ch. 2. Semantics of Concurrent Programming / J. Desharnais, A. Mili, R. Mili, J. Mullins and Y. Slimani -- Ch. 3. Formal Methods: A Petri Nets Based Approach / Giorgio De Michelis, Lucia Pomello, Eugenio Battiston, Fiorella De Cindio and Carla Simone -- Ch. 4. Complexity Issues in Parallel and Distributed Computing / E. V. Krishnamurthy -- Ch. 5. Distributed Computing Theory / Hagit Attiya -- Ch. 6. Pram Models / Lydia I. Kronsjo -- Ch. 7. Broadcasting with Selective Reduction: A Powerful Model of Parallel Computation / Selim G. Akl and Ivan Stojmenovic -- Ch. 8. Dataflow Models / R. Jagannathan -- Ch. 9. Partitioning and Scheduling / Hesham EI-Rewini -- Ch. 10. Checkpointing in Parallel and Distributed Systems / Avi Ziv and Jehoshua Bruck -- Ch. 11. Architecture for Open Distributed Software Systems / Kazi Farooqui and Luigi Logrippo --
• Ch. 12. Fundamentals of Parallel Algorithms / Joseph F. Jaja -- Ch. 13. Parallel Graph Algorithms / Stephan Olariu -- Ch. 14. Parallel Computational Geometry / Mikhail J. Atallah -- Ch. 15. Data Structures for Parallel Processing / Sajal K. Das and Kwang-Bae Min -- Ch. 16. Data Parallel Algorithms / Howard Jay Siegel, Lee Wang, John John E. So and Muthucumaru Maheswaran -- Ch. 17. Systolic and VLSI Processor Arrays for Matrix Algorithms / D. J. Evans and M. Gusev -- Ch. 18. Direct Interconnection Networks / Ivan Stojmenovic -- Ch. 19. Parallel and Communication Algorithms on Hypercube Multiprocessors / Afonso Ferreira -- Ch. 20. RISC Architectures / Manolis Katevenis -- Ch. 21. Superscalar and VLIW Processors / Thomas M. Conte -- Ch. 22. SIMD-Processing: Concepts and Systems / Michael Jurczyk and Thomas Schwederski -- Ch. 23. MIMD Architectures: Shared and Distributed Memory Designs / Ralph Duncan --
• Ch. 24. Memory Models / Leonidas I. Kontothanassis and Michael L. Scott -- Ch. 25. Heterogeneous Computing / Howard Jay Siegel, John K. Antonio, Richard C. Metzger, Min Tan and Yan Alexander Li -- Ch. 26. Cluster Computing / Louis Turcotte -- Ch. 27. Massively Parallel Processing with Optical Interconnections / Eugen Schenfeld -- Ch. 28. ATM-Based Parallel and Distributed Computing / Salim Hariri and Bei Lu -- Ch. 29. Parallel Languages / R. H. Perrott -- Ch. 30. Tools for Portable High-Performance Parallel Computing / Doreen Y. Cheng -- Ch. 31. Visualization of Parallel and Distributed Systems / Michael T. Heath -- Ch. 32. Constructing Numerical Software Libraries for High-Performance Computer Environments / Jack J. Dongarra and David W. Walker -- Ch. 33. Testing of Distributed Programs / K. C. Tai and Richard H. Carver -- Ch. 34. Scientific Computation / Timothy G. Mattson -- Ch. 35. Parallel and Distributed Simulation of Discrete Event Systems / Alois Ferscha --
• Ch. 36. Parallelism for Image Understanding / Viktor K. Prasanna and Cho-Li Wang -- Ch. 37. Parallel Computation in Biomedicine: Genetic and Protein Sequence Analysis / Tieng K. Yap, Ophir Frieder and Robert L. Martino -- Ch. 38. Parallel Algorithms for Solving Stochastic Linear Programs / Amal De Silva and David Abramson -- Ch. 39. Parallel Genetic Algorithms / Andrew Chipperfield and Peter Fleming -- Ch. 40. Parallel Processing for Robotic Computations: A Review / Tarek M. Nabhan and Albert Y. Zomaya -- Ch. 41. Distributed Flight Simulation: A Challenge for Software Architecture / Rick Kazman.

ISBN

0070730202 (hc)

LCCN

95032594

OCLC

ocm32820483

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries