1. Edition - September 2009
77.90 Euro
2009. 268 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-04039-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-04039-3 - John Wiley & Sons






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Until now, research and development results in high-performance heterogeneous computing were dispersed over various collections of papers, providing a fragmented picture of the field. The first book to present the state of the art in this rapidly developing area of computer science, High Performance Heterogeneous Computing provides computer scientists, applied mathematicians, software engineers, scientific and applied programmers, graduate and postgraduate students, and researchers with a complete overview of software for parallel and distributed programming for heterogeneous networks, including parallel programming systems, distributed programming systems, and grid-based systems.

From the contents
PREFACE.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

PART I HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS: TAXONOMY, TYPICAL USES, AND PROGRAMMING ISSUES.

1. Heterogeneous Platforms and Their Uses.

1.1 Taxonomy of Heterogeneous Platforms.

1.2 Vendor-Designed Heterogeneous Systems.

1.3 Heterogeneous Clusters.

1.4 Local Network of Computers (LNC).

1.5 Global Network of Computers (GNC).

1.6 Grid-Based Systems.

1.7 Other Heterogeneous Platforms.

1.8 Typical Uses of Heterogeneous Platforms.

1.8.1 Traditional Use.

1.8.2 Parallel Computing.

1.8.3 Distributed Computing.

2. Programming Issues.

2.1 Performance.

2.2 Fault Tolerance.

2.3 Arithmetic Heterogeneity.

PART II PERFORMANCE MODELS OF HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS AND DESIGN OF HETEROGENEOUS ALGORITHMS.

3. Distribution of Computations with Constant Performance Models of Heterogeneous Processors.

3.1 Simplest Constant Performance Model of Heterogeneous Processors and Optimal Distribution of Independent Units of Computation with This Model.

3.2 Data Distribution Problems with Constant Performance Models of Heterogeneous Processors.

3.3 Partitioning Well-Ordered Sets with Constant Performance Models of Heterogeneous Processors.

3.4 Partitioning Matrices with Constant Performance Models of Heterogeneous Processors.

4. Distribution of Computations with Nonconstant Performance Models of Heterogeneous Processors.

4.1 Functional Performance Model of Heterogeneous Processors.

4.2 Data Partitioning with the Functional Performance Model of Heterogeneous Processors.

4.3 Other Nonconstant Performance Models of Heterogeneous Processors.

4.3.1 Stepwise Functional Model.

4.3.2 Functional Model with Limits on Task Size.

4.3.3 Band Model.

5. Communication Performance Models for High-Performance Heterogeneous Platforms.

5.1 Modeling the Communication Performance for Scientific Computing: The Scope of Interest.

5.2 Communication Models for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Clusters.

5.3 Communication Performance Models for Local and Global Networks of Computers.

6. Performance Analysis of Heterogeneous Algorithms.

6.1 Efficiency Analysis of Heterogeneous Algorithms.

6.2 Scalability Analysis of Heterogeneous Algorithms.

PART III PERFORMANCE: IMPLEMENTATION AND SOFTWARE.

7. Implementation Issues.

7.1 Portable Implementation of Heterogeneous Algorithms and Self-Adaptable Applications.

7.2 Performance Models of Heterogeneous Platforms: Estimation of Parameters.

7.2.1 Estimation of Constant Performance Models of Heterogeneous Processors.

7.2.2 Estimation of Functional and Band Performance Models of Heterogeneous Processors.

7.2.3 Benchmarking of Communication Operations.

7.3 Performance Models of Heterogeneous Algorithms and Their Use in Applications and Programming Systems.

7.4 Implementation of Homogeneous Algorithms for Heterogeneous Platforms.

8. Programming Systems for High-Performance Heterogeneous Computing.

8.1 Parallel Programming Systems for Heterogeneous Platforms.

8.2 Traditional Parallel Programming Systems.

8.2.1 Message-Passing Programming Systems.

8.2.2 Linda.

8.2.3 HPF.

8.3 Heterogeneous Parallel Programming Systems.

8.4 Distributed Programming Systems.

8.4.1 NetSolve.

8.4.2 Nimrod.

8.4.3 Java.

8.4.4 GridRPC.

PART IV APPLICATIONS.

9. Numerical Linear Algebra Software for Heterogeneous Clusters.

9.1 HeteroPBLAS: Introduction and User Interface.

9.2 HeteroPBLAS: Software Design.

9.3 Experiments with HeteroPBLAS.

10. Parallel Processing of Remotely Sensed Hyperspectral Images on Heterogeneous Clusters.

10.1 Hyperspectral Imaging: Introduction and Parallel Techniques.

10.2 A Parallel Algorithm for Analysis of Hyperspectral Images and Its Implementation for Heterogeneous Clusters.

10.3 Experiments with the Heterogeneous Hyperspectral Imaging Application.

10.4 Conclusion.

11. Simulation of the Evolution of Clusters of Galaxies on Heterogeneous Computational Grids.

11.1 Hydropad: A Simulator of Galaxies' Evolution.

11.2 Enabling Hydropad for Grid Computing.

11.2.1 GridRPC Implementation of the Hydropad.

11.2.2 Experiments with the GridSolve-Enabled Hydropad.

11.3 SmartGridSolve and Hydropad.

11.3.1 SmartGridSolve Implementation of the Hydropad.

11.3.2 Experiments with the SmartGridSolve-Enabled Hydropad.

11.4 Acknowledgment.

PART V FUTURE TRENDS.

12. Future Trends in Computing.

12.1 Introduction.

12.2 Computational Resources.

12.2.1 Complex and Heterogeneous Parallel Systems.

12.2.2 Intel-ization of the Processor Landscape.

12.2.3 New Architectures on the Horizon.

12.3 Applications.

12.4 Software.

12.5 Some Important Concepts for the Future.

12.5.1 Heterogeneous Hardware Environments.

12.5.2 Software Architecture.

12.5.3 Open Source.

12.5.4 New Applications.

12.5.5 Verification and Validation.

12.5.6 Data.

12.6 2009 and Beyond.

REFERENCES.

APPENDICES.

Appendix A Appendix to Chapter 3.

A.1 Proof of Proposition 3.1.

A.2 Proof of Proposition 3.5.

Appendix B Appendix to Chapter 4.

B.1 Proof of Proposition 4.1.

B.2 Proof of Proposition 4.2.

B.3 Proof of Proposition 4.3.

B.4 Functional Optimization Problem with Optimal Solution, Locally Nonoptimal.

INDEX.