18. HPCS 2004: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

M. Rasit Eskicioglu (Ed.): Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, HPCS 2004, May 16-19, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. University of Manitoba, Department of Computer Science 2004, ISBN 0-9735472-0-0

Part I: Algorithms

Jürgen Foag, Thomas Wild: Queuing Algorithm for Speculative Network Processors. 3-8
José M. Rodríguez, F. Chris MacPhee, David J. Bonham, Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar: Solving the Quadratic Assignment and Dynamic Plant Layout Problems Using a New Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Approach. 9-16
Ruppa K. Thulasiram, Chen Zhen, Abba B. Gumel: A Second Order L₀ Stable Algorithm for Evaluating European Options. 17-23

Part II: Applications

Justin W. L. Wan, Kevin Lai, Adam W. Kolkiewicz, Ken Seng Tan: A Parallel Quasi-Monte Carlo Approach to Pricing American Options. 27-35
Robert J. Thacker, Hugh M. P. Couchman: A New Fast Parallel Statistical Measurement Technique for Computational Cosmology. 37-43
Ge Baolai: On the Performance of Parallel Implementations of an ADI Scheme for Parabolic Equations with Mixed Derivatives Using Multithreads and MPI. 45-54
Mesbah Uddin, Andrew Pollard: MPI Scalability of a Large Memory LES Code. 55-61
James Wadsley, Gopi Veerevalli, Hugh Couchman: Numerical Mixing and and Entropy Transport for Compressible CFD Applications. 63-71
Carson Kai-Sang Leung: Efficient Parallel Mining of Constrained Frequent Patterns. 73-82

Part III : Experiences

Mario A. R. Dantas, A. Hosken: The ATHA Environment: Experience with a User Friendly Environment for Opportunistic Computing. 85-88
Ge Baolai: An Enhanced C/C++ and FORTRAN API to Posix Threads. 89-98

Part IV: The Grid

Robert D. McLeod, Sheng Huang, Marek Laskowski, Sajid Hussain: Communication Issues within HPC Grids. 101-107
Morgan Kan, Danny Ngo, Mark Lee, Paul Lu, Nolan Bard, Michael Closson, Meng Ding, Mark Goldberg, Nicholas Lamb, Yang Wang, Ron Senda, Edmund Sumbar: The Trellis Security Infrastructure: A Layered Approach to Overlay Metacomputers . 109-117

Part V: Modeling, Simulation, and Performance

S. Filizadeh, A. M. Gole: Interfacing Gradient-Based Optimization Methods with Simulation Programs: A Novel Tool for the Design of High Performance Systems. 121-127
Mohamed Dahmani, Benoît Morin, Robert Roy: Performance Evaluation for Neutron Transport Application Using Message Passing. 129-134
Brian J. d'Auriol, Maria Beltran: Optical Bus Communication Modeling and Simulation. 135-142

Part VI: Systems

Ying Qian, Ahmad Afsahi, Nathan R. Fredrickson, Reza Zamani: Performance Evaluation of the Sun Fire Link SMP Clusters. 145-156
Afrin Naz, Krishna M. Kavi, Philip H. Sweany, Mehran Rezaei: A Study of Separate Array and Scalar Caches. 157-164
Angela C. Sodan, Xuemin Huang: Adaptive Time/Space Sharing with SCOJO. 165-176

Short Papers

Mario A. R. Dantas, D. P. Cunha: An Experimental Case Study of Replication on Reconciliation in a Wireless Environment. 179-182
Yangjun Chen, Yibin Chen: Efficient Top-down Algorithms for Tree Inclusion. 183-187
F. Chris MacPhee, Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar: Static Assignment Schemes for the Concurrent Computation of Algebraic Fractals. 189-191
Ying Zhou, Angela C. Sodan: Survey of Zero-Copy Optimization in User-Level Communication and Adaptive Knowledge-Based Solution. 193-197
Angela C. Sodan, Gang Hu: GAMine - Generalized Intelligent Middleware for Data Access in Parallel Scientific Datamining. 199-203
Amit Chhabra, Parimala Thulasiraman, Mohammad Towhidul Islam, Ruppa K. Thulasiram: An OpenMP Implementation of FTCS Method for Reduced Black-Sholes Equation. 205-207
Hossein Pourreza, M. Rasit Eskicioglu, Peter C. J. Graham: Preliminary Performance Assessment of Four Cluster Interconnects on Identical Hardware. 209-212
Vishnu K. Narayanasami, Peter C. J. Graham: Design of a User Level Data Staging System for use in High Performance Computing Systems. 213-215