Vector and Parallel Processing VECPAR 98

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Vector and Parallel Processing VECPAR 98 held in Porto Portugal in June 1998 The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision Also included are six invited papers and introductory chapter surveys The papers are organized in sections on eigenvalue problems and solutions of linear systems computational fluid dynamics structural analysis and mesh partitioning computing in education computer organization programming and benchmarking image analysis and synthesis parallel database servers and nonlinear problems This book stands as the visible mark of VECPAR 98 3rd International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing which was held in Porto Portugal from 21 to 23 June 1998 VECPAR 98 was the third of the VECPAR series of conferences initiatedin1993and organisedby FEUP the FacultyofEngineering of the University of Porto The conference programme comprised a total of 6 invited talks 66 c tributedpapers and18posters Thecontributed papers andposters were selected from 120 extended abstracts originating from 27 countries Outline of the book The book with 7 chapters contains 41 contributed papers and 6 invited talks The 41 papers included in these proceedings result from the reviewing of all papers presented at the conference Each of the rst 6 chapters includes 1 of the 6 invited talks of the conference and related papers Chapters 1 2 4 5 and 7 are initiated by an introductory text providing the reader with a guide to the chapter contents Chapter 1 is on numerical algebra It begins with an introductory text by cente Hernandez followedby the invited talk by Gene Golub entitled Some usual Eigenvalue Problems The remaining11contributed articles in thischapter deal either with large scale eigenvalue problems or with linear system problems Computational uiddynamicsandc