An analytical overview of the state of the art, open problems, and future trends in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing

This book provides an overview of the ongoing academic research, development, and uses of heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing in the context of scientific computing. Presenting the state of the art in this challenging and rapidly evolving area, the book is organized in five distinct parts:

Heterogeneous Platforms: Taxonomy, Typical Uses, and Programming Issues

Performance Models of Heterogeneous Platforms and Design ofHeterogeneous Algorithms

Performance: Implementation and Software

Applications

Future Trends

High Performance Heterogeneous Computing is a valuablereference for researchers and practitioners in the area of high performance heterogeneous computing. It also serves as an excellent supplemental text for graduate and postgraduate courses in related areas.

Current thinking about state-of-the-art infrastructure for computational science isdominatedbytwoconcepts: computingclustersandcomputationalgrids.Cl- ter architectures consistently hold the majority of slots on the list of Top 500 supercomputersites, andcomputationalGrids, inbothexperimentalandprod- tiondeployments, havebecome commonin academic, governmentandindustrial research communities around the world. The message passing is the dominant programmingparadigmforhigh-performancescienti?ccomputingonthesearc- tectures. MPI and PVM have emerged as standard programming environments in the message-passing paradigm. The EuroPVM/MPI conference series is the premierresearcheventforhigh-performanceparallelprogramminginthemessa- passingparadigm.Applications usingparallelmessage-passingprogramming, - oneered in this researchcommunity, are having signi?cant impact in the areas of computational science, such as bioinformatics, atmospheric sciences, chemistry, physics, astronomy, medicine, banking and ?nance, energy, etc. EuroPVM/MPIisa?agshipconferenceforthiscommunity, establishedasthe premier international forum for researchers, users and vendors to present their latest advances in MPI and PVM. EuroPVM/MPI is the forum where fun- mental aspects of message passing, implementations, standards, benchmarking, performance and new techniques are presented and discussed by researchers, developers and users from academia and industry. EuroPVM/MPI 2008 was organized by the UCD School of Computer S- ence and Informatics in Dublin, September 7-10, 2008. This was the 15th issue of the conference, which takes place each year at a di?erent European location. Previous meetings were held in Paris (2007), Bonn (2006), Sorrento (2005), - dapest(2004), Venice(2003), Linz(2002), Santorini(2001), Balatonfured(2000), Barcelona(1999), Liverpool(1998), Krakow(1997), Munich(1996), Lyon(1995), and Rome (1994). The main topics of the meeting were formal veri?cation of message passing programs, collective operations, parallel applications using the message passing paradigm, one-sided and point-to-point communication, MPI standard ext- sions or evolution, tools for performance evaluation and optimization, MPI-I/O, mutli-core and multithreaded architectures, and heterogen