Parallel Computing Numerics, Applications, and Trends /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Trobec, Roman. (Editor), Vajteraic, Mariǹ. (Editor), Zinterhof, Peter. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Electronic data processing.; Computer simulation.; Numerical analysis.; Computer Science.; Numerical Analysis.; Numeric Computing.; Simulation and Modeling.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-409-6

Advancements in microprocessor architecture, interconnection technology, and software development have fueled rapid growth in parallel and distributed computing. However, this development is only of practical benefit if it is accompanied by progress in the design, analysis and application aspects of...

Table of Contents:

• Overview <U+0013> Parallel Computing: Numerics, Applications, and Trends
• Introduction to Parallel Computation
• Tools for Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Grid Computing
• Parallel Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement
• Applications and Parallel Implementation of QMC Integration
• Parallel Evolutionary Computation Framework for Single- and Multiobjective Optimization
• WaLBerla: Exploiting Massively Parallel Systems for Lattice Boltzmann Simulations
• Parallel Pseudo-spectral Methods for the Time Dependent Schrd̲inger Equation
• Parallel Approaches in Molecular Dynamics Simulations
• Parallel Computer Simulations of Heat Transfer in Biological Tissues
• Parallel SVD Computing in the Latent Semantic Indexing Applications for Data Retrieval
• Short-Vector SIMD Parallelization in Signal Processing
• Financial Applications: Parallel Portfolio Optimization
• The Future of Parallel Computation.