Parallel Processing Computers

It is an indespensible book for students who are starting a course in parallel computing or even Advanced Computer Architecture. It is recommended by the faculty in best of Engineering College faculties for study during the course. The content is not too techie and accompanying figures make for easy... More

Just as the workstation has replaced the mainframe, today's PCs handle an increasing portion of the world's server load. Nowhere is this more evident than in the phenomenal growth of the Linux operating system. Today Linux reaches into the high performance realm of parallel computing by means of clu... More

This book offers state-of-the-art principles and techniques for designing and programming parallel, vector and scalable computer systems. Written by a leading expert in the field, the authoritative text covers: theory of parallelism - parallel computer models, program and network properties, perform... More

This text provides an exceptional introduction to Parallel Computing by balancing theory and practice. The emphasis is on designing, analyzing and implementing parallel algorithms suitable for execution on real parallel computers. Early chapters set the stage by introducing key concepts, illustrati... More

This book describes a way of building and using simple inexpensive parallel computers using PCs. It presents details of hardware, system software and application programming lucidly. It can be used as an introductory textbook in the architecture and programming environment of parallel computers. Con... More

Covering both the theoretical and practical aspects of fault-tolerant computing and reliability analysis, this book tackles the current issues of reliability-based optimization of computer networks, fault-tolerant mobile systems, and fault-tolerance and reliability of high speed and hierarchical net... More

Today, parallel computing arouses enormous interest among students and professionals as it is clear that, as the new millennium progresses, all computers will work in parallel. A basic knowledge of the design and use of parallel computers is, therefore, essential for both students of computing and u... More

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to WAVE, a revolutionary technology that combines the power and flexibility of conventional sequential programming with the open, fully distributed architectures found in the most sophisticated CORBA-based systems. Developed by Peter Sapaty--a noted pi... More

Although synthetic environments were traditionally used in military settings for mission rehearsal and simulations, their use is rapidly spreading to a variety of applications in the commercial, research and industrial sectors, such as flight training for commercial aircraft, city planning, car safe... More

A new model for task scheduling that dramatically improves the efficiency of parallel systems Task scheduling for parallel systems can become a quagmire of heuristics, models, and methods that have been developed over the past decades. The author of this innovative text cuts through the confusion a... More

Standard ML is emerging as one of the most widely used functional programming languages. Equally, concurrent programming is becoming an increasingly important area of research and industrial application, and the integration of concurrency primitives is an active topic of development. This book surve... More

This book outlines a methodology for the use of parallel processing in real time systems. It provides an introduction to parallel processing in general, and to embedded systems in particular. Among the embedded systems are processors in such applications as automobiles, various machinery, IPGAs (fie... More

Aims to bridge the gap between parallel computer architectures and the creation of parallel digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms. This work offers an approach to digital signal processing utilizing the unified signal algebra environment to develop naturally occurring parallel DSP algorithms.;C... More

Clustering is a vital methodology in the data storage world. Its goal is to maximize cost-effectiveness, availability, flexibility, and scalability. Clustering has changed considerably for the better due to Storage Area Networks, which provide access to data from any node in the cluster. Explains ho... More

Daily life relies more and more on safety critical systems, e.g. in areas such as power plant control, traffic management, flight control, and many more. MOVEP is a school devoted to the broad subject of modeling and verifying software and hardware systems.This volume contains tutorials and annotate... More