Published: 1999-12-09

Editorial

A Wakeup Call for Supercomputing

Janusz S. Kowalik, John Lixvar

Introduction to the Special Issue

Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra

Jack Dongarra, Erricos John Kontoghiorghes

Special Issue Papers

A Comparison of Parallel Solvers for Diagonally Dominant and General Narrow-Banded Linear Systems

Peter Arbenz, Andrew Cleary, Jack Dongarra, Markus Hegland

Mapping Strategies in Data Parallel Programming Models; the Projection Methods

N. Emad

Parallel Multiplication of a Vector by a Kronecker Product of Matrices

Claude Tadonki, Bernard Philippe

Parallel Sparse Matrix Algorithms for Air Pollution Models

K. Georgiev, Z. Zlatev

Band Preconditioners: Application to Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods on Parallel Computers

O. Besson

Research Reports

A Java-based Distributed Debbuger Supporting MPI and PVM

Xingfu Wu, X.-H. Sun

On Encoding Neural Networks to Estimate the Atmospheric Point Spread Function in a Parallel Environment

Bin Cong

Book Reviews

High-Performance Cluster Computing. Volume 1: Architecutes and Systems. Volume 2: Programming and Applications

C. P. Ravikumar

High Performance Algorithms for Structured Matrix Problems

Laurence Tianruo Yang