Michael Hobbs – författare

There are many applications that require parallel and distributed processing to allow complicated engineering, business and research problems to be solved in a reasonable time. Parallel and distributed processing is able to improve company profit, lower costs of design, production, and deployment of new technologies, and create better business environments. The major lesson learned by car and aircraft engineers, drug manufacturers, genome researchers and other specialist is that a computer system is a very powerful tool that is able to help them solving even more complicated problems. That has led computing specialists to new computer system architecture and exploiting parallel computers, clusters of clusters, and distributed systems in the form of grids. There are also institutions that do not have so complicated problems but would like to improve profit, lower costs of design and production by using parallel and distributed processing on clusters. In general to achieve these goals, parallel and distributed processing must become the computing mainstream. This implies a need for new architectures of parallel and distributed systems, new system management facilities, and new application algorithms. This also implies a need for better understanding of grids and clusters, and in particular their operating systems, scheduling algorithms, load balancing, heterogeneity, transparency, application deployment, which is of the most critical importance for their development and taking them by industry and business.

This two volume set LNCS 7016 and LNCS 7017 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2011, held in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2011. The first volume presents 24 revised regular papers and 17 revised short papers together with the abstract of the keynote lecture - all carefully reviewed and selected from 85 initial submissions. The papers cover the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental results, and commercial components and systems and focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications.

This two volume set LNCS 7016 and LNCS 7017 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2011, held in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2011. The second volume includes 37 papers from one symposium and three workshops held together with ICA3PP 2011 main conference. These are 16 papers from the 2011 International Symposium on Advances of Distributed Computing and Networking (ADCN 2011), 10 papers of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2011), 7 papers belonging to the III International Workshop on Multicore and Multithreaded Architectures and Algorithms (M2A2 2011), as well as 4 papers of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel Architectures for Bioinformatics Systems (HardBio 2011).