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Title

Parallel MIMD computation : the HEP supercomputer and its applications / edited by J.S. Kowalik.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1985]
• ©1985

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Additional Authors

Kowalik, Janusz S.

Description

411 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Experts in high-speed computation agree that the rapidly growing demand for more powerful computers can only be met by a radical change in computer architecture, a change from a single serial processor to an aggregation of many processors working in parallel. At present, our knowledge about multi-processor architectures, concurrent programming or parallel algorithms is very limited. This book discusses all three subjects in relation to the HEP supercomputer that can handle multiple instruction streams and multiple data streams (MIMD). The HEP multiprocessor is an innovative general purpose computer, easy to use by anybody familiar with FORTRAN. Following a preface by the editor, the book's fifteen original contributions are divided into four sections: The HEP Architecture and Systems Software; The HEP Performance; Programming and Languages; and Applications of the HEP Computer. An appendix describes the use of monitors in FORTRAN, providing a tutorial on the barrier, self-scheduling DO loop, and Askfor monitors. J.S. Kowalik, who has contributed a chapter with S.P. Kumar on "Parallel Algorithms for Recurrence and Tridiagonal Linear Equations," is a manager in Boeing Computer Services' Artificial Intelligence Center in Seattle. MIMD Computation is included in the Scientific Computation Series, edited by Dennis Cannon

Series Statement

The MIT Press series in scientific computation

Uniform Title

MIT Press series in scientific computation

Alternative Title

Parallel M.I.M.D. computation

Subject

• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment
• Denelcor HEP (Computer)
• Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
• Computerarchitektur
• Supercomputers
• HEP

Genre/Form

Parallelanwendung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

HEP Architecture, Programming and Performance / Harry F. Jordan -- The Architecture of HEP / Burton Smith -- Performance characterization of the HEP / R.W. Hockney -- A brief survey of implicit parallelism detection / Karl J. Ottenstein -- HEP SISAL: Parallel Functional Programming / S.J. Allan and R.R. Oldehoeft -- Execution Support for HEP SISAL / R.R. Oldehoeft and S.J. Allan -- Logic Programming on the HEP / John Gabriel, Tim Lindholm, E.L. Lusk and R.A. Overbeek -- Programming the HEP with Large-Grain Data Flow Techniques / R.G. Babb II -- Solving Ordinary Differential Equations on the HEP Computer / Swarn P. Kumar and Robert E. Lord -- A Parallel Linear Algebra Library for the Denelcor HEP / J.J. Dongarra and D.C. Sorensen -- Parallel Algorithms for Recurrence and Tridiagonal Equations / J.S. Kowalik and S.P. Kumar -- Hydrocodes on the HEP / D.L. Hicks -- Los Alamos experiences with the HEP Computer / O.M. Lubeck, P.O. Frederickson, R.E. Hiromoto, and J.W. Moore -- Solution of Boundary-Value Problems on HEP / M.R. Scott -- Use of Monitors in FORTRAN: A Turorial on the Barrier, Self-scheduling DO-Loop, and Askfor Monitors / E.L. Lusk and R.A. Overbeek.

ISBN

• 0262111012
• 9780262111010
• 9780262256537 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

85000039

OCLC

• ocm11650076
• 11650076
• SCSB-638973

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library