Volume 2, Number 1, 1999

Editorial

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  D. E. Keyes: Adapting to Hostile Architectural Environments.

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Jan van Katwijk, Janusz Zalewski: Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems: An Introduction.

Special Issue

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  Andreas Polze, Kurt C. Wallnau, Daniel Plakosh, Miroslaw Malek: Real-Time Computing with Off-the-Shelf Components: The Case for CORBA.
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  Hesham Fouad, B. Narahari, James Kwangjune Hahn: A Real-Time Parallel Scheduler for the Imprecise Computation Model.
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  Z. M. Wójcik, Janusz Zalewski: Distributed Computations in Real Time Based on a Rough Grammar Principle.
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  T. Tunali, Kayhan Erciyes, Zehra Soysert: A Hierarchical Fault-Tolerant Ring Protocol for Distributed Real-Time Systems.
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  B. D. Gannod, S. Bhattacharya: Real-Time Multicast in Wireless Communication.
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  A. Benzekri, P. Sarafoglu: Real-Time Network Applications Programming.
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  Jan van Katwijk, Ruud C. M. de Rooij, Sylvia Stuurman, Hans Toetenel: Software Development and Verification of Dynamic Real-Time Distributed Systems Based on the Radio Broadcast Paradigm.
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  Tullio Vardanega: On the Distribution of Control Functions in New-Generation On-Board Embedded Real-Time Systems.
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  C. Gaspar, B. Franek, J. J. Schwarz: Architecture of a Distributed Real-Time System to control Large High-Energy Physics Experiments.

Book review

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  Yi Pan: Optical Interconnections and Parallel Processing: Trends at the Interface.
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  Bin Cong, Shawn Morrison, Michael Yorg: Scalable Parallel Computing: Technology, Architecture, Programming.
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  Domenico Talia: Structured Development of Parallel Programs.

Volume 2, Number 2, 1999

Editorial

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  David A. Bader: A New, Architectural Paradigm for High-performance Computing.

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Rajkumar Buyya, Clemens A. Szyperski: High Performance Computing on Clusters?

Special Issue

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  Markus Fischer, Jack Dongarra: Experiences with Windows NT as a Cluster Computing Platform for Parallel Computing.
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  José A. Gallud, Jesús D. García-Consuegra, A. Martinez: Distributed Processing of Remotely Sensed Landsat-TM Imagery Using MPI.
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  Quinn Snell, Glenn Judd, Mark J. Clement: The DOGMA Approach to Parallel and Distributed Computing.
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  T. S. Abdelrahman, G. Liu: Overlap of Computation and Communication on Shared-Memory.
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  G. Agrawal: Aggressive Communication Optimizations for Clusters of Workstations.
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  Ursula Maier, Peter Luksch, Arndt Bode: Experiences with the SEMPA Resource Manager for Real World Scientific.
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  Wei-Ming Lin, Qiuyan Gu: Task Scheduling on Bus-based Networks of Workstations.
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  B. Weissman, B. Gomes: High Performance Thread Migration on Clusters of SMPs.
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  Harjinder S. Sandhu, Tim Brecht, D. Moscoso: Multiple-Writer Entry Consistency.
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  Sotiris Ioannidis, Athanasios E. Papathanasiou, Grigorios Magklis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos, J. Sevaslidou: On Using Reliable Network RAM in Networks of Workstations.
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  H.-Y. Cheng, C.-T. King: File Declustering for Efficient Parallel I/O on Networks of Workstations.
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  R. W. dos Santos, Ricardo Bianchini, Claudio Luis de Amorim: A Survey of Messaging Software Issues and Systems for Myrinet-Based.

Book review

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  James P. Buckley: Designing Enterprise Client/Server Systems.
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  Wanlei Zhou: Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems.

Volume 2, Number 3, 1999

Editorial

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  Stewart Reddaway: Will SIMD Make a Comeback?

Overview paper

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  Y. F. Hu, R. J. Blake: Load Balancing for Unstructured Mesh Applications.

Research paper

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  M. Ethtesham Hayder, C. S. Ierotheou, D. E. Keyes: Three Parallel Programming Paradigms: Comparisons on an Archetypal PDE Computation.
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  Hervé Guyennet, Jean-Christophe Lapayre: The Group Aproach in Cooperative Work and in Load Balancing.
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  P. H. Fry, Jeffrey Nesheiwat, Boleslaw K. Szymanski: Experiences with Distributed Computation of Twin Primes Distributions.
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  W. Liang, H. Shen: Multicast in Large WDM Networks.
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  Dmitry Aparov, Alexey Kalinov, Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Ilya Ledovskih: A Language Approach to Computing on Heterogenous Networks.
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  Mostafa Bamha, Gaétan Hains: Frequency-Adaptive Join for Shared Nothing Machines.

Software review

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  Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, Shu Hua Xiong: The Design and Implementation of Video Servers in Video-on-Demand Systems.

Book review

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  Mounir Hamdi: Designing ATM Switching Networks.
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  Jennifer Seitzer: In Search of Clusters. The Ongoing battle in lowly parallel computing.

Volume 2, Number 4, 1999

Editorial

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  Janusz S. Kowalik, John P. Lixvar: A Wakeup Call for Supercomputing.

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Jack Dongarra, Erricos John Kontoghiorghes: Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra.

Special Issue

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  Peter Arbenz, Andrew J. Cleary, Jack Dongarra, Markus Hegland: A Comparison of Parallel Solvers for Diagonally Dominant and General Narrow-Banded Linear Systems.
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  N. Emad: Mapping Strategies in Data Parallel Programming Models; the Projection Methods.
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  Claude Tadonki, Bernard Philippe: Parallel Multiplication of a Vector by a Kronecker Product of Matrices.
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  Krassimir Georgiev, Zahari Zlatev: Parallel Sparse Matrix Algorithms for Air Pollution Models.
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  Olivier Besson: Band Preconditioners: Application to Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods on Parallel Computers.

Research paper

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  Xingfu Wu, X.-H. Sun: A Java-based Distributed Debbuger Supporting MPI and PVM.
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  Bin Cong: On Encoding Neural Networks to Estimate the Atmospheric Point Spread Function in a Parallel Environment.

Book review

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  C. P. Ravikumar: High-Performance Cluster Computing. Volume 1: Architecutes and Systems. Volume 2: Programming and Applications.
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  Laurence Tianruo Yang: High Performance Algorithms for Structured Matrix Problems.