Turbulence -- Direct Numerical Simulation of Fully-Developed Turbulent Channel Flow Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method and Analysis of OpenMP Scalability -- Parallel Computations of Unsteady Three-Dimensional Flows in a High Pressure Turbine -- Application of Parallel Processing to the Simulation of Heart Mechanics -- A Hybrid Parallel Algorithm for Transforming Finite Element Functions from Adaptive to Cartesian Grids -- Leveraging Multicore Cluster Nodes by Adding OpenMP to Flow Solvers Parallelized with MPI -- Materials & Life Sciences -- A Maxwell-Schrödinger-Plasma Model and Computing Aspects for Intense, High Frequency and Ultrashort Laser-Gas Interaction -- The Implementation of Polarizable and Flexible Models in Molecular Dynamics Simulations -- Efficient Numerical Methods for the Time-Dependent Schroedinger Equation for Molecules in Intense Laser Fields -- A Parallel Algorithm for Computing the Spectrum of CH -- Modeling the Interactions between Poly(N-Vinylpyrrolidone) and Gas Hydrates: Factors Involved in Suppressing and Accelerating Hydrate Growth -- Nonlinear Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Studies of Ionization in CO2 and N2 by Intense Laser Pulses and Molecular Orbital Reconstruction -- Considerations for Progressive Damage in Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials Subject to Fatigue -- Bringing HPC to Industry -- Parallelizing Power Systems Simulation for Multi-core Clusters: Design for an SME -- Computing Science, Mathematics, & Statistics -- OpenMP Parallelization of a Mickens Time-Integration Scheme for a Mixed-Culture Biofilm Model and Its Performance on Multi-core and Multi-processor Computers -- An Evaluation of Parallel Numerical Hessian Calculations -- Preliminary Findings of Visualization of the Interruptible Moment -- SCTP, XTP and TCP as Transport Protocols for High Performance Computing on Multi-cluster Grid Environments -- Dynamic Resource Matching for Multi-clusters Based on an Ontology-Fuzzy Approach -- Domain Decomposition of Stochastic PDEs: A Novel Preconditioner and Its Parallel Performance -- Interactive Data Mining on a CBEA Cluster -- HPC Systems & Methods -- Service-Oriented Grid Computing for SAFORAH -- IO Pattern Characterization of HPC Applications -- Failure Data-Driven Selective Node-Level Duplication to Improve MTTF in High Performance Computing Systems -- Out-of-Core Parallel Frontier Search with MapReduce -- Hybrid MPI-Cell Parallelism for Hyperbolic PDE Simulation on a Cell Processor Cluster -- BW-DCache: An Inexpensive, Effective and Reliable Cache Solution in a SAN File System -- Object-Oriented OpenMP Programming with C++ and Fortran -- FFT-Based Dense Polynomial Arithmetic on Multi-cores -- Case Study of Scientific Data Processing on a Cloud Using Hadoop.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, HPCS 2009, held in Kingston, Canada, in June 2009. The 29 revised full papers presented - fully revised to incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the symposium - were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on turbulence, materials and life sciences, bringing HPC to industry, computing science, mathematics, and statistics, as well as HPC systems and methods.