Parallel Computing in Optimization
During the last three decades, breakthroughs in computer technology have made a tremendous impact on optimization. In particular, parallel computing has made it possible to solve larger and computationally more difficult prob lems. This volume contains m
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Applied Optimization Volume 7 Series Editors: Panos M. Pardalos University of Florida, U.S.A. Donald Hearn University of Florida, U.SA.
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Parallel Computing in Optimization Edited by
Athanasios Migdalas LinJcijping Institute of Technology
Panos M. Pardalos University ofFlorida
and
Sverre Stor0y University ofBergen
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-3402-6
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CONTENTS
PREFACE 1
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MODELS FOR PARALLEL ALGORITHM DESIGN: AN INTRODUCTION
Afonso Ferreira and Michel Morvan 1 Introduction Shared memory model: PRAM 2 Distributed memory models: DMM 3 The coarse grained multicomputer model: CGM 4 Summary 5 6
2
EXERCISES
PARALLEL ALGORITHMS AND COMPLEXITY
Martin Furer 1 Introduction Models of Parallel Computers 2 Limits of Parallelism 3 Classification of some Important Graph Problems 4 Basic Techniques 5 6
7 8
3
1 1 4 13 21 24 24
Parallel Algorithms Toolbox Approximating the Minimum Degree Spanning Tree Problem EXERCISES
27 28 30 34 38 40 44 49 52
A PROGRAMMER'S VIEW OF PARALLEL COMPUTERS TorS¢revik
1
57 57
Introduction
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PARALLEL COMPUTING IN OPTIMIZATION
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2 3 4 5
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The Memory Hierarchy Communication Network Future trends EXERCISES
SCALABLE PARALLEL ALGORITHMS FOR SPARSE LINEAR SYSTEMS Anshul Gupta, George Karypis, and Vipin Kumar
1 2 3 4
5
Introduction Parallel Direct Cholesky Factorization Multilevel Graph Partitioning EXERCISES
73 73 77 84 91
OBJECT ORIENTED MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND COMPILATION TO PARALLEL CODE Niclas Andersson and Peter Fritzson
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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59 65 68 69
Introduction Object Math Background to Parallel Code Generation Definitions Towards a Parallelising Compiler Equation System Level Equation Level Clustered Task Level Explicit Parallelism Summary EXERCISES
99 100 102 121 136 141 145 151 159 170 177 178
