Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1999-02-01DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199902)11:2%3C109::AID-CPE320%3E3.0.CO;2-8
D. Levine, W. Gropp, K. Forsman, L. Kettunen
{"title":"Parallel computation of three-dimensional nonlinear magnetostatic problems","authors":"D. Levine, W. Gropp, K. Forsman, L. Kettunen","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199902)11:2%3C109::AID-CPE320%3E3.0.CO;2-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199902)11:2%3C109::AID-CPE320%3E3.0.CO;2-8","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a general-purpose parallel electromagnetic code for computing accurate solutions to large computationally demanding, 3D, nonlinear magnetostatic problems. The code, CORAL, is based on a volume integral equation formulation. Using an IBM SP parallel computer and iterative solution methods, we successfully solved the dense linear systems inherent in such formulations. A key component of our work was the use of the PETSc library, which provides parallel portability and access to the latest linear algebra solution technology.","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132129814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1998-12-25DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981225)10:15%3C1317::AID-CPE419%3E3.0.CO;2-4
D. Mehta, E. D. Wilson
{"title":"Parallel algorithms for corner stitching","authors":"D. Mehta, E. D. Wilson","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981225)10:15%3C1317::AID-CPE419%3E3.0.CO;2-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981225)10:15%3C1317::AID-CPE419%3E3.0.CO;2-4","url":null,"abstract":"Corner stitching is the underlying data structure that is used to represent rectangular objects in interactive VLSI layout editing systems such as Magic and Tailor. In this paper we develop efficient algorithms for basic corner stitching operations under the message-passing paradigm. These algorithms were implemented using C and PVM on a distributed network composed of SUN workstations. Experimental results show that significant speed-ups were obtained. 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128032996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1998-12-25DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981225)10:15%3C1291::AID-CPE418%3E3.0.CO;2-K
F. F. Cai, M. Hull, D. Bell
{"title":"The design and evaluation of a buffer algorithm for database machines","authors":"F. F. Cai, M. Hull, D. Bell","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981225)10:15%3C1291::AID-CPE418%3E3.0.CO;2-K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981225)10:15%3C1291::AID-CPE418%3E3.0.CO;2-K","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122999706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1998-12-10DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981210)10:14%3C1223::AID-CPE372%3E3.0.CO;2-8
H. M. Abbas, M. Bayoumi
{"title":"Performance of a backpropagation trained feedforward network on an MIMD architecture","authors":"H. M. Abbas, M. Bayoumi","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981210)10:14%3C1223::AID-CPE372%3E3.0.CO;2-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981210)10:14%3C1223::AID-CPE372%3E3.0.CO;2-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122507392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1998-12-10DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981210)10:14%3C1197::AID-CPE364%3E3.0.CO;2-O
B. Topol, J. Stasko, V. Sunderam
{"title":"PVaniM: a tool for visualization in network computing environments","authors":"B. Topol, J. Stasko, V. Sunderam","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981210)10:14%3C1197::AID-CPE364%3E3.0.CO;2-O","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19981210)10:14%3C1197::AID-CPE364%3E3.0.CO;2-O","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128516471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concurr. Pract. Exp.Pub Date : 1998-09-01DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199809/11)10:11/13%3C1087::AID-CPE401%3E3.0.CO;2-Y
L. Jain, M. Abbott
{"title":"DOVE: distributed objects based scientific visualization environment","authors":"L. Jain, M. Abbott","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199809/11)10:11/13%3C1087::AID-CPE401%3E3.0.CO;2-Y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199809/11)10:11/13%3C1087::AID-CPE401%3E3.0.CO;2-Y","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and performance of a distributed, multi-tier architecture for scienti c data visualization. A novel aspect of this framework is its integration of Java IDL, the CORBA distributed object computing middleware with JavaBeans, the Java Component model to provide a exible, interactive framework for distributed, highperformance scienti c data visualization. CORBA server objects running in a distributed collaborative environment provide data acquisition and perform data-intensive computations. Clients as Java Bean components use these server objects for data retrieval and provide an environment for visualization. The server objects use JDBC, the Java application programming interface to SQL databases, to retrieve data from the database. We discuss the system framework and its components and describe an example application and its performance.","PeriodicalId":199059,"journal":{"name":"Concurr. Pract. Exp.","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128376673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}