Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface

1. Extensions and Improvements on PVM/MPI

   1. A Model to Integrate Message Passing and Shared Memory Programming

      • J. A. González, C. León, C. Rodríguez, F. Sande

      Pages 114-125

   2. An Architecture for a Multi-threaded Harness Kernel

      • Wael R. Elwasif, David E. Bernholdt, James A. Kohl, G. A. Geist

      Pages 126-134

   3. Parallel IO Support for Meta-computing Applications: MPI_Connect IO Applied to PACX-MPI

      • Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Michael Resch, Jack J. Dongarra

      Pages 135-147

2. Tools for PVM and MPI

   1. TOPPER: A Tool for Optimizing the Performance of Parallel Applications

      • Dimitris Konstantinou, Nectarios Koziris, George Papakonstantinou

      Pages 148-157

   2. Programming Parallel Applications with LAMGAC in a LAN-WLAN Environment

      • Elsa M. Macías, Alvaro Suárez, C. N. Ojeda-Guerra, E. Robayna

      Pages 158-165

   3. A Dynamic Load Balancing Architecture for PDES Using PVM on Clusters

      • Arnold N. Pears, Nicola Thong

      Pages 166-173

   4. Dynamic Partitioning of the Divide-and-Conquer Scheme with Migration in PVM Environment

      • Pawel Czarnul, Karen Tomko, Henryk Krawczyk

      Pages 174-182

   5. Using Monitoring Techniques to Support the Cooperation of Software Components

      • Roland Wismüller

      Pages 183-191

   6. An Integrated Record&Replay Mechanism for Nondeterministic Message Passing Programs

      • Dieter Kranzlmüller, Christian Schaubschläger, Jens Volkert

      Pages 192-200

   7. Fast and Scalable Real-Time Monitoring System for Beowulf Clusters

      • Putchong Uthayopas, Sugree Phatanapherom

      Pages 201-208

   8. Dynamic Process Management in KSIX Cluster Middleware

      • Thara Angskun, Putchong Uthayopas, Arnon Rungsawang

      Pages 209-216

   9. Adaptive Execution of Pipelines

      • Luz Marina Moreno, Francisco Almeida, Daniel González, Casiano Rodríguez

      Pages 217-224

   10. MemTo: A Memory Monitoring Tool for a Linux Cluster

       • Francesc Giné, Francesc Solsona, Xavi Navarro, Porfidio Hernández, Emilio Luque

       Pages 225-232

   11. A Community Databank for Performance Tracefiles

       • Ken Ferschweiler, Mariacarla Calzarossa, Cherri Pancake, Daniele Tessera, Dylan Keon

       Pages 233-240

   12. Review of Performance Analysis Tools for MPI Parallel Programs

       • Shirley Moore, David Cronk, Kevin London, Jack Dongarra

       Pages 241-248

3. Algorithms Using Message Passing

   1. PVM Computation of the Transitive Closure: The Dependency Graph Approach

      • Aris Pagourtzis, Igor Potapov, Wojciech Rytter

      Pages 249-256

   2. Parallizing 1-Dimensional Estuarine Model

      • Jun Luo, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Chenxia Qiu

      Pages 257-264

   3. A Parallel ADI and Steepest Descent Methods

      • I. V. Schevtschenko

      Pages 265-271

   4. Distributed Numerical Markov Chain Analysis

      • Markus Fischer, Peter Kemper

      Pages 272-279

   5. A Parallel Algorithm for Connected Components on Distributed Memory Machines

      • Libor Buš, Pavel Tvrdík

      Pages 280-287

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) are the most frequently used tools for programming according to the message passing paradigm, which is considered one of the best ways to develop parallel appli- tions. This volume comprises 50 revised contributions presented at the Eighth - ropean PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, which was held on Santorini (Thera), Greece,23–26September2001.TheconferencewasorganizedbytheDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece. This conference has been previously held in Balatofured, ¨ Hungary (2000), Barcelona, Spain (1999), Liverpool, UK (1998), and Krakow, Poland (1997). The ?rst three conferences were devoted to PVM and were held at the TU Munich, Germany (1996), the ENS Lyon, France (1995), and the University of Rome (1994). This conference has become a forum for users and developers of PVM, MPI, and other message passing environments. Interaction between these groups has proved to be very useful for developing new ideas in parallel computing and for applying some of those already existent to new practical ?elds. The main topics of the meeting were evaluation and performance of PVM and MPI, extensions and improvements to PVM and MPI, algorithms using the message passing paradigm,andapplicationsinscienceandengineeringbasedonmessagepassing. The conference included one tutorial on MPI and 9 invited talks on advances in MPI, cluster computing, network computing, Grid computing, and parallel programming and programming systems. These proceedings contain papers on the 46 oral presentations together with 4 poster presentations.

• Parallel virtual machine (PVM)
• algorithm
• algorithms
• cluster computing
• distributed systems
• grid computing
• high-performance computing
• message passing interface (MPI)
• networking computing
• parallel algorithms
• parallel applications
• parallel processing
• performance evaluat

• Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Greece

  Yiannis Cotronis

• Innovative Computing Lab., Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  Jack Dongarra

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