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CONCURRENCY: PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE, VOL. 4, iii-vi (1992) Contents of Volume 4 VOLUME 4 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 1992 Performance of a Particle-in-cell Plasma Simulation Code on the BBN TC2000 J. E. STURTEVANT, A. B. MACCABE AND P. M. CAMPBELL Numerical Simulation of Three-dimensional Thermal Convection on the Array Processor DAP 510 W. ERHARD AND M. SCHAFER Fault Tolerant Parallel Programming in Argus H. E. BAL Computation and Data Movement on RP3 L. BROCHARD AND A. FREAU Designing Algorithms on RP3 L. BROCHARD AND A. FREAU VOLUME 4 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1992 Two-Level Twisted Preconditionings for Parallel Computers L. BRUGNANO 107 A Performance Analysis Exemplar: Parallel Ray Tracing D. W. JENSEN AND D. A. REED 119 Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Deadiock-Free Routing Algorithm for Concurrent Computers M. CANNATARO, G. SPEZZANO, D. TALIA AND E. GALLIZZI Parallel Approaches to the Solution of the Assignment Problem N. J. DAVIS IV, B. A. CARPENTER, C. W. GLOVER AND J.-C. CULIOLI Highly Efficient Transputer Arrays for the Computation of Robot Dynamics A. Y. ZOMAYA Indexed or abstracted by: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, CompuMath Citation Index (Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)), Computing Reviews, Data Processing Digest, INSPEC, Research Alert (ISI) and SCISEARCH Database (ISI). CONTENTS OF VOLUME 4 VOLUME 4 NUMBER 3 MAY 1992 Parallel-Processing Applications for Data Analysis in the Social Sciences J. SKVORETZ, S. A. SMITH AND C. BALDWIN Evaluating the Basic Performance of the Intel iPSC/860 Parallel Computer R. BERRENDORF AND J. HELIN Data Parallel Sorting for Particle Simulation L. DAGUM Hypercube Clock Synchronization T. H. DUNIGAN VOLUME 4 NUMBER 4 JUNE 1992 Parallelizing the Spectral Transform Method P. H. WORLEY AND J. B. DRAKE Network-based Concurrent Computing on the PVM System G. A. GEIST AND V. S. SUNDERAM Run-time Data Decomposition for Parallel Implementation of Image Processing and Computer Vision Tasks A. N. CHOUDHARY AND R. PONNUSAMY CONTENTS OF VOLUME 4 VOLUME 4 NUMBER 5 AUGUST 1992 Replication Techniques for Speeding Up Parallel Applications on Distributed Systems H. E. BAL, M. F. KAASHOEK, A. S. TANENBAUM AND J. JANSEN Parallel Computing in Aerospace Using Multi-block Grids. Part 1: Application to Grid Generation J. HAUSER, H. WONG, H. G. PAAP AND W. GENTZSCH Echidna, an Estelle Compiler to Prototype Protocols on Distributed Computers C. JARD AND J.-M. JEZEQUEL Transputer Arrays for the On-line Computation of Robot Jacobians A. Y. H. ZOMAYA and A. S. MORRIS VOLUME 4 NUMBER 6 SEPTEMBER 1992 Global Adaptive Quadrature for the Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Integrals on a Distributed-memory Multiprocessor M. LAPEGNA Efficient Communication Primitives on Hypercubes C.-T. HO AND M. T. RAGHUNATH The MPE Toolkit for Supporting Distributed Applications A. BARAK, S. GUDAY AND R. LAOR Sparse Iterative Algorithm Software for Large-scale MIMD Machines: an Initial Discussion and Implementation J. N. SHADID AND R. S. TUMINARO CONTENTS OF VOLUME 4 VOLUME 4 NUMBER 7 OCTOBER 1992 A Fast Poisson Solver for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors D. DI SERAFINO, A. MURLI AND F. PERLA Parallelizing the Spectral Transform Method. Part Il D. W. WALKER, P. H. WORLEY AND J. B. DRAKE An Experiment in Concurrent Software Evaluation R. H. PERROTT AND A. RAMASUBBU Allocating Data to Multicomputer Nodes by Physical Optimization Algorithms for Loosely Synchronous Computations N. MANSOUR AND G. C. FOX VOLUME 4 NUMBER 8 DECEMBER 1992 Porting a Dusty Deck Fortran Program to a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor ANDY BEAVIS AND CHRIS PHILLIPS 575 Parallel Language Developments in Europe: An Overview R. H. PERROTT 589 Voxel Databases: A Paradigm for Parallelism with Spatial Structure ROY D. WILLIAMS 619 Author Index 637