Parallel Architectures and Their Efficient Use

A combining mechanism for parallel computers.- A case for the PRAM as a standard programmer's model.- Hashing strategies for simulating shared memory on distributed memory machines.- Better parallel architectures via emulations.- Relations between models of parallel abstract machines.- Frontiers of parallel computing.- Cost effectiveness of data flow machines and vector processors.- The networks of the connection machine CM-5.- Massively parallel computing: Data distribution and communication.- A realizable efficient parallel architecture.- Hardware support for collective communication operations.- Programmable active memories: a performance assessment.- The role of randomness in the design of interconnection networks.- Chaos router: Finally, a practical adaptive router?.- An experimental study of wormhole routing in parallel computers.- Three non conventional paradigms of parallel computation.- Scalable parallel computers and scalable parallel codes: From theory to practice.- A framework for analyzing locality and portability issues in parallel computing.- Optimal implementation of general divide- and-conquer on the hypercube and related networks.- Parallel implementations of graph embeddings.- On sorting by prefix reversals and the diameter of pancake networks.