José M. Laginha M. Palma & Patrick Amestoy 
High Performance Computing for Computational Science – VECPAR 2008 [PDF ebook] 
8th International Conference, Toulouse, France, June 24-27, 2008. Revised Selected Papers

Parallel and Distributed Computing.- An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future.- Parallelization of Sphere-Decoding Methods.- Improving the Performance of a Verified Linear System Solver Using Optimized Libraries and Parallel Computation.- Parallelisation of the CFD Code of a CFD-NWP Coupled System for the Simulation of Atmospheric Flows over Complex Terrain.- High Performance Computing for Eigenvalue Solver in Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Method: Parallelization of the Hamiltonian Matrix-Vector Multiplication.- Tunable Parallel Experiments in a Grid RPC Framework: Application to Linear Solvers.- Cluster and Grid Computing.- The Rise of the Commodity Vectors.- MOPS – A Morphodynamical Prediction System on Cluster Computers.- Implementing a Parallel Net CDF Interface for Seamless Remote I/O Using Multi-dimensional Data.- Vectorized AES Core for High-throughput Secure Environments.- A Matrix Inversion Method with YML/Omni RPC on a Large Scale Platform.- Can We Connect Existing Production Grids into a World Wide Grid?.- A List Scheduling Algorithm for Scheduling Multi-user Jobs on Clusters.- Data Locality Aware Strategy for Two-Phase Collective I/O.- Problem Solving Environment and Data Centric.- A Grid-Aware Web Portal with Advanced Service Trading for Linear Algebra Calculations.- Resource Matching in Non-dedicated Multicluster Environments.- A Parallel Incremental Learning Algorithm for Neural Networks with Fault Tolerance.- High-Performance Query Processing of a Real-World OLAP Database with Par GRES.- Improving Search Engines Performance on Multithreading Processors.- Numerical Methods.- Accomplishments and Challenges in Code Development for Parallel and Multimechanics Simulations.- An Algorithm-by-Blocks for Super Matrix Band Cholesky Factorization.- An Efficient and Robust Decentralized Algorithm for Detecting the Global Convergence in Asynchronous Iterative Algorithms.- A Parallel Implementation of the Trace Minimization Eigensolver.- A Load Balancing Knapsack Algorithm for Parallel Fuzzy c-Means Cluster Analysis.- Scalable Parallel 3d FFTs for Electronic Structure Codes.- Linear Algebra.- Evaluation of Sparse LU Factorization and Triangular Solution on Multicore Platforms.- A Parallel Matrix Scaling Algorithm.- Design, Tuning and Evaluation of Parallel Multilevel ILU Preconditioners.- On the I/O Volume in Out-of-Core Multifrontal Methods with a Flexible Allocation Scheme.- Parallel Eigensolvers for a Discretized Radiative Transfer Problem.- Computing in Geosciences and Biosciences.- High Performance Computing and the Progress of Weather and Climate Forecasting.- Simulation of Seismic Wave Propagation in an Asteroid Based upon an Unstructured MPI Spectral-Element Method: Blocking and Non-blocking Communication Strategies.- A Simulation of Seismic Wave Propagation at High Resolution in the Inner Core of the Earth on 2166 Processors of Mare Nostrum.- Using a Global Parameter for Gaussian Affinity Matrices in Spectral Clustering.- Comparing Some Methods and Preconditioners for Hydropower Plant Flow Simulations.- Imaging and Graphics.- Computational Models of the Human Body for Medical Image Analysis.- Attaining High Performance in General-Purpose Computations on Current Graphics Processors.- Optimised Computational Functional Imaging for Arteries.- Memory Locality Exploitation Strategies for FFT on the CUDA Architecture.- Computing for Aerospace and Engineering.- Large Eddy Simulation of Combustion on Massively Parallel Machines.- Variational Multiscale LES and Hybrid RANS/LES Parallel Simulation of Complex Unsteady Flows.- Vortex Methods for Massively Parallel Computer Architectures.- On the Implementation of Boundary Element Engineering Codes on the Cell Broadband Engine.- High-Performance Data Management in Grid Environments.- Grid Data Management: Open Problems and New Issues from the P2P Perspective.- Data Management Concerns in a Pervasive Grid.- DTR: Distributed Transaction Routing in a Large Scale Network.- Distributed Management of Massive Data: An Efficient Fine-Grain Data Access Scheme.- BLAST Distributed Execution on Partitioned Databases with Primary Fragments.- Testing Architectures for Large Scale Systems.- Data Replication and the Storage Capacity of Data Grids.- Text Mining Grid Services for Multiple Environments.- Using Stemming Algorithms on a Grid Environment.