Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Adaptive Applications

This unique, cross-disciplinary reference investigates the state of the art in advanced computational infrastructures and the applications they support. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the requirements, challenges, underlying philosophies, and deployment of infrastructures that provide programming, execution, and runtime management for large-scale adaptive implementations. The information is presented from the perspective of system architects, software engineers, computational scientists, and applications scientists, making the book useful for practitioners and students in these fields.

Manish Parashar, Phd, is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where he is also the director of the Applied Software Systems Laboratory and director of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing. He has received numerous awards, including the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2004-2005) and the NSF Career Award (1999). Xiaolin Li, PHD, is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Oklahoma State University.