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From: maceyb@ee.uwa.edu.au (Benjamin Macey)
Subject: Repost: announcing the recent release of "Parallel Computing: Paradigms and Applications"
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Date: 17 Jan 1996 03:42:39 GMT
Message-ID: <4dfl28$fal@styx.uwa.edu.au>

A posting for those of you into parallel computing
(by me for Dr Albert Zomaya).
Announcing the recent release of the following book.
Check out our web page at:
   http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~paracomp/home.html
for more goodies. The problems with this page have been remedied since
my last post - thanks to those people who informed me of their difficulties.


PARALLEL COMPUTING 
Paradigms and Applications
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Edited by Albert Y. Zomaya
Published by: International Thomson Computer Press
570 pages -- ISBN 1-85032188-4
Retail: 49.95 pounds sterling
Publication date: 1996 (already available)
	
In recent years, parallel computing has become an important alternative to 
the serial model of computation which has been used for the last four decades. 
This breakthrough has in turn accelerated the development of more computing 
power and higher processing speed. Parallel computers and the multiple levels 
of application that they offer, together with the continual reduction in the 
cost and size of computer electronic components, present the computing world 
with a new opportunity to develop and to address computationally intensive 
problems in a variety of disciplines.

Parallel Computing: Paradigms and Applications provides a broad review of 
some of the main research issues in the parallel computing community. In 
addition to presenting the major trends in parallel computing, the 
contributors 
to this volume also discuss a range of applications that have been greatly 
influenced by this technology. Each chapter is self-contained, giving an 
insight to one particular topic, contributed by some sixty of the world 
leading authorities in the field of parallel computing.

Researchers, students, and practitioners in this rapidly evolving field will 
all find Parallel Computing: Paradigms and Applications an invaluable and 
interesting source of information.

______________________________________________________________________________


Table of Contents
_________________

List of contributots
Foreword -- Chris Jesshope
Preface
Acknowledgements
  

PART I: ARCHITECTURES
______________________


Chapter  1: Developments in Scalable MIMD Architectures
            R. Duncan

Chapter  2: Shared-Memory Multiprocessors - A Cost-Effective Approach to
	    High-Performance Parallel Computing
	    P. Stenstrom

Chapter  3: The Design and Prototyping of the PASM Reconfigurable
	    H.J. Siegel, T. Schwederski, W.G. Nation, J.B. Armstrong, 
	    L. Wang J.T. Kuehn, R. Gupta, M.D. Allemang, D.G. Meyer, and 
	    D.W. Watson


PART II: THEORY AND MODELS
__________________________


Chapter  4: Assertional Reasoning about Dynamic Systems
	    H.C. Cunningham, G.-C. Roman, and J. Plun

Chapter  5: Structured Parallel Computation Using Categorical Data Types
	    D.B. Skillicorn

Chapter  6: Parallel Computational Geometry
	    M.J. Atallah and D. Chen

Chapter  7: Dependability Modelling of Parallel and Distributed Computers
	    C.R. Das and P. Mohapatra

Chapter  8: Locality-Based Scheduling for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
	    E.P. Markatos and T.J. LeBlanc
    
Chapter  9: Static Scheduling of Fine-Grained Programming Constructs 
	    on Distributed-Memory Machines
	    T.G. Lewis

Chapter 10: Reconfiguration and Routing in Interconnection Networks Using 
	    Time Division Multiplexing
	    R. Melhem, C. Qiao, D. Chiarulli, and S. Levitan

Chapter 11: An L-Loop Bounding Scheme of Doacross Loops on Dynamic 
	    Dataflow Machines
	    Y. Ishii, H. Yamana, T. Yasue, and Y. Muraoka


PART (III): PROGRAMMING SUPPORT AND SOFTWARE TOOLS
__________________________________________________


Chapter 12: Software For Parallel Computing - A Prespective
            J.K. Aggarwal and P. Chillakanti

Chapter 13: Visualization Techniques for Parallel Debugging and Performance
	    Tuning Tools
	    C.M. Pancake

Chapter 14: PIPADS-A Low Cost Real-Time Visualisation Tool
	    A.J.C. Spray, H. Schroder, K.T. Lie, E. Plesner, and P.D. Bray

Chapter 15: DCompose: A Tool for Measuring Data Decomposition on 
	    Distributed Memory Multiprocessors
	    D. Abramson and G. Cameron
 
Chapter 16: Integrated PVM Framework Supports Heterogeneous Computing
	    J.J. Dongarra, G.A. Geist, R. Manchek, and V.S. Sunderam


PART (IV): APPLICATION DOMAINS
______________________________


Chapter 17: Opportunities for HPCC Use in Industry: Opportunities for a 
	    New Software Industry in HPCC
	    G.C. Fox and K. Mills

Chapter 18: Load Balancing, Latency Management and Separation of Concerns 
	    in a Distributed Virtual World
	    R. Kazman

Chapter 19: The Problem Characteristics and Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
	    D. Nicol

Chapter 20: Optimization for Multiprocessor/Distributed Databases: 
	    A Statistical Approach
	    F.N. Barlos, O. Frieder, and G. Frieder

Chapter 21: Generalized Parallelism for Embedded Vision Applications
	    A.C. Downton, R.W.S. Tregidgo, and A. Cuhadar

Chapter 22: Parallel Simulation of Artificial Neural Networks
	    D.J. Evans and H.Y.Y. Sanossian

Chapter 23: Parallelism and Concurrency in Real-Time Embedded Systems:
	    Benchmarks for Multibody System Dynamics Computations
	    A.Y. Zomaya

Chapter 24: Generating Combinatorial Objects on a Linear Array of Processors
	    S.G. Akl and I. Stojmenovic


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Parallel Computing Research Group
Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Perth, WA, Australia.

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