Parallel Processing Techniques for Simulation

Session 1: Report of the EEC Project.- Decomposition-Coordination Techniques for Parallel Simulation.- Application of Parallel Processing to RELAP.- Clustering Technique for Rearranging ODE Systems.- Multi-Level Hierarchical Structures for the Solution of Large Sets of Ordinary Differential Equations.- Session 2: Parallel System Solvers.- A Completely Parallel Scheme for Simulation of Transients in Large Gas Transmission Networks.- On the Factorisation of Certain Symmetric Circulant Banded Linear Systems.- An ABS Method for Solving Suitably Structured Linear Systems is Supported by Parallel Architectures.- Frequency-Domain Separable Decomposition of 2-Dimensional Systems.- A Parallel Estimation Algorithm.- Design of Parallel Numerical Algorithms.- Session 3: Partitioning Techniques.- Determination and Separation of Dynamics for Multi-Time Scale Bilinear Systems.- Dynamic Programming: A Parallel Implementation.- ESL - Advanced Simulation Language for Parallel Processors.- Survey of Parallel Processing in Simulation.- Session 4: Distributed Computing Applications.- Integrated System Optimisation and Parameter Estimation Technique Using a Distributed Hierarchical Computer System.- Parallel Kalman Filter Bank Design for Adaptive Image Restoration.- Session 5: Parallel Processing Architectures.- A Multimicroprocessor for Parallel Processing.- Parallel Calculation Modelling with Data Flow Petri Nets.- Systolic Nets Modelling with Data Flow Petri Nets.- Multiprocessor Task Scheduling with Single Resource Constraints.- The Numerical Solution of Non-Linear Parabolic Equations on MIMD Parallel Computers.- Author Index.