High-Performance Computing for Large-Scale Analysis, Optimization, and Control

Research papers published on parallel processing, supercomputing, and distributed computing since 1994 are reviewed in this article. The focus is on review of the archival journal articles published in three areas: analysis, optimization, and control. The review is divided into three main sections: (1) parallel processing on dedicated shared memory and distributed memory parallel machines; (2) distributed computing on a cluster of networked workstations; and (3) parallel computing and object-oriented programming. The great majority of the journal articles published since 1987 deal with fundamental issues and academic problems. The trend in the future, at least in part, should be more toward solution of large-scale and complicated real-life engineering problems, the kind of problems that cannot be solved readily by conventional uniprocessor computers.