Software for Parallel Computation

1 Introduction.- Software for Parallel Computing: Key Issues and Research Directions.- 2 Tools and Methods for Parallel Computing.- Learning From Our Successes.- Software Development for Parallel Processing.- Software Tools for Developing and Porting Parallel Programs.- Scalable Software Tools for Parallel Computations.- PVM and HeNCE: Tools for Heterogeneous Network Computing.- Distributed Shared Memory: Principles and Implementation.- FORGE 90 and High Performance Fortran (HPF).- The Bird-Meertens Formalism as a Parallel Model.- Software Issues for the PASM Parallel Processing System.- Data Migrations on the Hypercube.- Automatic Determination of Parallelism in Programs.- Are Object Oriented Programming Methods Suitable for Numerical Computing on Parallel Machines.- Parallel Relational Data Base Management System Design Aspects.- 3 Graphics.- MUDI3: a Tool for the Interactive Visual Analysis of Multidimensional Fields.- Graphical Support for Parallel Debugging.- 4 Algorithms and Applications.- Backpropagation on Distributed Memory Systems.- Mapping Algorithms on Hypercube.- Software Development for Finite Element Fluid Dynamic Applications.- Asynchronous Communication on Shared-Memory Parallel Computers.- Two Different Data-Parallel Implementations of the BLAS.- 5 Performance of Parallel Programs and Systems.- Examples of Scalable Performance.- Performance Prediction from Data Transport.- Dynamic Load Balancing in Adaptive Parallel Applications.- Performance Analysis of Dynamic Scheduling Techniques for Irregularly Structured Computation.