Supercomputing

In this book, a diverse cross-section of application, computer, and data scientists explores the impact of data-intensive science on current research and describes emerging technologies that will enable future scientific breakthroughs. The book identifies best practices used to tackle challenges fac..

While much has been written on Marcel Duchamp - one of the twentieth century's most beguiling artists - the subject of his flirtation with architecture seems to have been largely overlooked. Yet, in the carefully arranged plans and sections organising the blueprint of desire in the Large Glass, his ..

This book focuses on the development of scalable and performance portable scientific applications for future exascale computer systems. It centers on programming practices of application developers to achieve scalability on high-end computer systems while maintain architectural and performance porta..

This book presents state-of-the-art research, methodologies, and applications of high performance computing for big data applications. It covers fundamental issues in Big Data research, including emerging architectures for data-intensive applications, novel analytical strategies to boost data proces..

In this book, leading practitioners, researchers, software architects, developers, and scientists offer insight on the parallel I/O ecosystem. The book explains how large-scale HPC facilities scope, configure, and operate systems. It covers the file system layer, middleware, user-facing libraries, r..

Intended for practitioners, researchers and graduate students in quantitative finance, computer science and related fields, this book serves as a handbook for design and implementation of financial models with relevant numerical methods on different HPC platforms in banks, insurance companies, pensi..

This book offers a global overview of high-performance computing industrial impact, along with a discussion of software challenges, business and access models, public-private partnerships, simulation and modeling, visualization, big data analysis, and governmental and industrial influence. A valuabl..

Technology and Social Science" examines the development and implementation of computer-assisted-learning in the social sciences. Encouraging both students and academics to improve the quality of their teaching and learning by using the wide range of new technologies effectively, this work highlights..

Describing useful current research in modern performance science and engineering, this book helps real-world users of parallel computer systems to better understand both the performance vagaries arising in scientific applications and the practical means for improving performance. Some of the most no..

Featuring contributions from the world’s leading experts in computational science, this volume provides the first collection of articles on petascale algorithms and applications for computational science and engineering.It explores the use of petascale computers for solving the most challenging scie..

This book addresses the significant challenge in designing applications to effectively use high-performance computing architectures and offers methods to more effectively restructure applications to take advantage of these powerful nodes. The authors discuss the benefit of vectorization, providing e..

By offering insight into the process of constructing and effectively using the technology, this volume provides a thorough and practical introduction to the area of hybrid computing. It discusses introductory concepts and simple examples of parallel computing, logical and performance debugging for p..