High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

I Keynote Presentation.- 1 C3.ca: The State of Our Union.- II Distributed Systems and Architecture.- 2 A Performance Evaluation of the ACORN Architecture.- 3 Towards a High Performance Extensible Grid Architecture.- 4 On the Feasibility of Time-Parallel Discrete Event Simulations over Local and Wide Area Networks.- 5 A Mobile Agent-based Approach to Web-based Distributed Computing.- 6 A Dynamic Scheme in Support of Scalability in General Purpose Distributed Virtual Environments.- III Numerical Methods and Simulation.- 7 Accuracy of Monte Carlo Method for Solution of Linear Algebraic Equations Using PLFG and rand().- 8 Numerical Simulation of the Growth of GaxIn1?xSb by the Travelling Heater Method.- 9 High Performance Computation for Time Domain Electromagnetic Simulations.- IV Network Algorithms and Protocols.- 10 Modelling of Adaptive Wormhole-Routed Hypercubes in the Presence of Broadcast Traffic.- 11 Frame-Based Fair Queueing: A Hardware Design for ATM Networks.- 12 Analysis of Frame-Based Fair Queueing under Self-Similar Traffic.- V Computer Architecture.- 13 Reducing Cache Miss Penalty Using I-Fetch Instructions.- 14 Reducing Indirect Mispredictions of Two-STAGE Branch Predictors.- 15 Data Prefetching Using Dual Processors.- VI Computer Architecture.- 16 THOR: A Multi-purpose Commodity Component Supercomputer.- 17 A New Methodology for Stack Operations Folding for Java Microprocessors.- 18 Communication Prediction in Message-Passing Multiprocessors.- VII Distributed Memory.- 19 A Preliminary Study of Cache-Only Write Detection Technique for Nautilus DSM.- 20 Analysis of a Lightweight Transport Protocol for High-Performance Computing.- 21 The GENESIS Cluster Operating System Supporting Parallel Processing.- VIII High Performance Computing Applications.- 22 Usinga HPC System for the Simulation of the Trajectories of Solar Wind Particles in the Ionosphere.- 23 Parallel MHD for Large-scale Plasma Simulation.- IX Parallel Algorithms.- 24 Parallel Broadcasting Scheme for Approximate String Matching with K-Mismatches.- 25 Organization and Evaluation of Parallel Logic Simulator on a PC Cluster.- 26 Block Based Compression Storage Expected Performance.- 27 Distributing Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms for Grid Computing.- X High Performance Computing Applications.- 28 Netcaches on Engineering and Commercial Applications.- 29 Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics studies of peptide-membrane binding.- 30 An Analysis of Immediate Memory: The free-recall task.- 31 Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Separated Flow and Convective Heat Transfer.- XI Astrophysics Applications.- 32 High Performance Computational Astrophysics with PKDGRAV/GASOLINE.