High Performance Computing Systems and Applications contains the fully refereed papers from the 13th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing, held in Kingston, Canada, in June 1999. This book presents the latest research in HPC architectures, distributed and shared memory performance, algorithms and solvers, with special sessions on atmospheric science, computational chemistry and physics.High Performance Computing Systems and Applications is suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Keynote Presentations.- High Performance Computing in North America.- Enabling Chemistry Applications with High Performance Computing.- High Performance Programming for Computational Scientists.- Computational Cognition and the Age of Supercomputing: Using High-Performance Computing and Usenet to Model Memory, Meaning and the Mind.- Web-Centric Supercomputing.- Panel Discussion.- Sharing and Security Policies for HPC and HPN.- Policy.- Toward a Model of Models: Part I.- Toward a Model of Models: Part II.- Prospects for a Distributed Research Network: Case Studies of Means, Mechanisms and Issues.- Distributed Memory Performance.- A Testing Strategy for Nondeterministic Message Passing Programs.- Roots: An Object-Oriented Active Message Library.- Hardware Performance and Communication Models of a Distributed Memory Parallel Computer System: A Case Study.- Computational Chemistry.- Applications of High Performance Computing in Vaccine Design.- Modelling Molecules in Intense Laser Fields - Numerical Methods for an IBM-SP2 Parallel Computer Environment.- Molecular Modeling of the Interaction of Neurotrophins with the P75NTR Common Neurotrophin Receptor.- Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation Using MD-Engine.- Parallel Computational Strategies for Viscous Hydrodynamics with Applications to Microfluidics.- Unusual Architectures.- Graph Algorithms on the Linear Array with a Reconfigurable Optical Bus.- Communication Latency Hiding in Reconfigurable Message-Passing Environments: Quantitative Studies.- Parallel Processing of the Evolving Tree Transformation System.- Computational Biology.- Computer-Based Analysis of Completely Sequenced Bacterial Genomes Reveals a Link Between Nucleotide Bias and Amino Acid Composition.- Virtual Enhancement of Combinatorial Libraries.- Bluejay: A Browser for Linear Units in Java.- High Level Applications.- The "Structured-Universe Approach" for Irregular and Dynamic Spatial Structures.- World Distribution Protocol for Support of Scalable General Purpose Distributed Virtual Environments.- A Programming System for Parallel Execution of Fortran Subprograms in Distributed Environment.- Condensed Graphs: A Multi-level, Parallel, Abstract Machine.- Object-Oriented Distributed and Parallel I/O Streams.- Parallelization of an Airline Flight-Scheduling Module on a Sci-Coupled NUMA Shared Memory Cluster.- Atmospheric Sciences.- Darwinian Evolution at RPN.- High-Resolution Weather Forecasting: A Teraflop Sustained on RISC/cache or Vector Processors.- High-Performance Modelling for the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) Field Experiment.- Climate Modelling at the University of Victoria.- Air Quality Prediction System.- On the Use of Coupled Atmospheric and Hydrologic Models at Regional Scale.- Algorithms.- A Note on Coarse Grained Parallel Integer Sorting.- Fast and Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Matrix Chain Product and Matrix Powers on Optical Buses.- An Efficient Transposition Algorithm for Distributed Memory Computers.- Tools.- Large Imagery Data Structuring Using Hierarchical Data Format for Parallel Computing and Visualization.- Shared Memory.- Cache Performance on Parallel Hash Join Algorithms.- Easy-Par: A Hybrid Environment Based on Message-Passing and Distributed Shared Memory.- A Preliminary DSM Speedup Comparison: JIAJIA X Nautilus.- Solvers.- A Parallel Direct 3D Elliptic Solver.- Reading Words Aloud: An Example of Retrieval from Semantic Memory.- Computing Numerical Distribution Functions in Econometrics.- Health.- High-Performance Computing for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer.-Bioinformatics Challenges Facing Medical Research Professionals and the Tools to Face Them.- Computational Physics.- Monte Carlo Simulations of Polymers in Solution.- Monte Carlo Studies of the Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Molecules.- Modeling Geometrical Heterogeneity in Biofilms.- General.- Experiences Using High-Level Programming for Parallel Cellular Computation.- A Parallel Analytical Solution of a Stochastic Combat Model.- Parallel Finite Element Simulation of 3D Mold-Filling Problems.- Poster Session.- Performance Analysis of Tape Libraries for Supercomputing Environments.- Network Parallel Computing for SOM Neural Networks.- Relaxation Phenomena of Ultra-Thin Magnetic Films.