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Cooperman, G., Jessen, E. and Michler, G. (2001), "Workshop on Wide Area Networks and High Performance Computing", Assembly Automation, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 275-276. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2001.21.3.275.2
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
This book is part of the Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences series. Workshop on Wide Area Networks and High Performance Computing presents recent research into computer network technology, communication software and the performance of mathematical algorithms used for large scale computations in wide area, high speed, computer networks. The workshop was held at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Essen University, Germany, 1‐5 September 1998.
The book comprises an introductory chapter and 21 papers. Chapters 2 to 5 present advanced computing and communications research under NSF support; a scalable resource reservation protocol for the Internet (SRP); differentiated Internet services; and a portable subroutine library for solving linear control problems on distributed memory computers, while parastation user level communication is discussed in chapter 6.
Chapters 7 and 8 discuss TOP‐C: task‐oriented parallel C for distributed and shared memory; and metacomputing in the gigabit testbed West, respectively.
The following five chapters include papers addressing High performance metacomputing in a transatlantic‐wide area application testbed; MILESS – a learning and teaching server for multi‐media documents; and performance analysis of wavefront algorithms on very large‐scale distributed systems. The DFN Gigabitwissenschaftsnetz G‐Win is presented in chapter 14.
Network resource management for end‐to‐end quality of service (QoS) is discussed in chapter 15, while a prototype of a combined digital and retrodigitized searchable mathematical journal is presented in chapter 16.
The remaining chapter includes papers addressing gigabit networking in Norway; low speed ATM over ADSL and the need for high speed networks; the design and evaluation of ParaStation 2; and broadcast communication in ATM computer networks and mathematical algorithm development.
Overall, this is an informative text which provides specialised research to a wider readership. Workshop on Wide Area Networks and High Performance Computing is suitable for researchers of engineering, mathematics and computer science.