This text covers the subjects of computer architecture and parallel and high-performance computing.

This text covers the subjects of computer architecture and parallel and high-performance computing. Topics include: free-space optical interconnect systems; design and analysis of optical interconnects; interconnect system analysis; and fiber-based interconnects.

Annotation Offers eight invited lectures by contributors from academia and industry in the fields of parallel computer systems, optical interconnections, and technology; two panel discussions; and 34 papers by contributors from throughout the world. In addition to reporting on recent advances in the field, they speculate on how optical interconnections might impact the design of parallel computer systems and communication networks, and the writing of applications and algorithms. Among the topics are reconfigurable architectures, embedding and mapping of applications and algorithms, the packaging and layout of optical interconnections, passive optical elements, data distribution and partitioning, and cost/performance studies. No subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2004, held in Wuhan, China in October 2004. Also included are selected refereed papers from two workshops associated with NPC 2004. The 46 revised full papers and 23 revised short papers presented together with abstracts of 5 invited presentations were selected from a total of 338 submissions. The 25 workshop revised papers included also were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on grid computing, peer-to-peer computing, Web techniques, cluster computing, parallel programming environments, network architecture, network security, network storage, intelligent sensor networks, and multimedia modeling and security in next generation network information systems.

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