Facing the Multicore-Challenge II: Aspects of New Paradigms and Technologies in Parallel Computing [Paperback]

This state-of-the-art survey features topics related to the impact of multicore, manycore, and coprocessor technologies in science and for large-scale applications in an interdisciplinary environment. The paperscover issues of current research in mathematical modeling, design of parallel algorithms, aspects of microprocessor architecture, parallel programming languages, hardware-aware computing, heterogeneous platforms, manycore technologies, performance tuning, and requirements for large-scale applications. The contributions presented in this volume offer a survey on the state of the art, the concepts and perspectives for future developments. They are an outcome of an inspiring conference conceived and organized by theeditors at the Karlsruhe Institute Technology (KIT) in September 2011. The twelve revised full papers presented together with two contributed papers focus on combination of new aspects of microprocessor technologies, parallel applications, numerical simulation, and software development; thus they clearly show the potential of emerging technologies in the area of multicore and manycore processors that are paving the way towards personal supercomputing and very likely towards exascale computing.

Invited Contributions.-Only the First Steps of the Parallel Evolution Have Been Taken Thus Far.-A Dynamic Load Balancing Approach with SMPSuperscalar and MPI.-Parallel Programming Languages.-Performance and Productivity of New Programming Languages.-Towards High-Performance Implementations of a Custom HPC Kernel Using Intel ? Array Building Blocks.-Manycore Technologies and FPGAs.-AHDAM: An Asymmetric Homogeneous with Dynamic Allocator.-Manycore Chip.-FPGA Implementation of the Robust Essential Matrix Estimation with RANSAC and the 8-Point and the 5-Point Method .-GPU Computing: Applications and Programming.-Using Free Scheduling for Programming Graphic Cards.-GPU Accelerated Computation of the LonlS+