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This book is the third of a running series of volumes dedicated to
selected topics of information systems theory and application. The
objective of the series is to provide a reference source for problem
solvers in business, industry, government, and professional researchers and
graduate students.
The first volume, Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems,
presents a balanced number of contributions from academia and
practitioners. The structure of the material follows a differentiation
between modeling languages, tools and methodologies. The second volume,
Handbook on Electronic Commerce, examines electronic storefront, on-line
business, consumer interface, business-to-business networking, digital
payment, legal issues, information product development and electronic
business models.
The present volume is a joint venture of an international board
of editors, gathering prominent authors of academia and practice, who
are well known specialists in the area of parallel and distributed processing.
The intention of the Handbook is to provide practitioners, scientists
and graduate students with a good overview of basic methods and paradigms,
as well as important issues and trends across the broad spectrum of the
above area. In particular, the book covers fundamental topics
such as efficient parallel algorithms, languages for parallel
processing, parallel operating systems, architecture of parallel and
distributed systems, management of resources in parallel systems, tools
for parallel computing, parallel database systems and multimedia object
servers, and networking aspects of distributed and parallel computing.
Three chapters are dedicated to applications: parallel and distributed
scientific computing, high-performance computing in molecular sciences,
and multimedia applications for parallel and distributed systems.
Summing up, the Handbook is indispensable for academics and
professionals who are interested in learning a leading expert's coherent
and individual view of the topic.
This volume was supported by Project CRIT-2 and KBN Grant No 8T11F02516
Particular thanks are dedicated to Dr. Müller from the Springer Verlag for
his encouragement to prepare the volume. Special thanks are addressed to
Maciej Drozdowski for his excellent job in careful editing the
manuscripts, Anna Błażewicz and Maciej Machowiak for proofreading and
corrections, and to many others who helped to prepare the volume.
Jacek Błażewicz
Klaus Ecker
Brigitte Plateau
Denis Trystram
Table of contents
Foreword | |
I. | Parallel and Distributed Computing: State-of-the-Art and Emerging Trends |
II. | The Design of Efficient Parallel Algorithms |
III. | Languages for Parallel Processing\endgraf |
IV. | Architecture of Parallel and Distributed Systems |
V. | Parallel Operating Systems\endgraf |
VI. | Management of Resources in Parallel Systems |
VII. | Tools for Parallel Computing: A Performance Evaluation Perspective |
VIII. | Parallel Database Systems and Multimedia Object Servers |
IX. | Networking Aspects of Distributed and Parallel Computing |
X. | Parallel and Distributed Scientific Computing |
XI. | High-performance Computing in Molecular Sciences |
XII. | Multimedia Applications for Parallel and Distributed Systems |
Index | |
List of contributors |