High Performance Computing: History, Concepts, and Implementation
Author:   Klaus Schmidt
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
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Pages:   350
Publication Date:   January 2009
Format:   Hardback
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High Performance Computing (HPC) is the area of supercomputers, the fastest and best systems of their time. Most supercomputers are used to solve scientific problems, be it weather forecasting, simulation of car crashes or wind tunnels, modeling of proteins in bio-chemical research, or for simulation of atom-bomb tests. The book deals with systems that are in practical use for such application areas. In the first part, the history of supercomputers is described, and it is shown which properties and trends will remain in the future. The second part describes all aspects of High Performance Computing, from chip technology over computer and cluster architecture, up to software, algorithms, and applications. The third part explores the practice of HPC planning: system selection, benchmarks, acceptance tests, and implementation of HPC environments. Finally, the book closes with an outlook on current trends and visions like Grid Computing.

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Author:   Klaus Schmidt
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
ISBN:  

9783540451211


ISBN 10:   3540451218
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   January 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.

Table of Contents

1. History.- History of Computing.- Development of Supercomputers and Clusters.- Seymor Cray, Amdahl and others.- 2. Architecture, Chips, Clusters and Nodes.- HPC Application Stack.- Chip Development Past and Future.- Cluster Systems.- Operating Systems.- 3. Software Aspects.- Introduction into High Performance Programming.-Optimization.- Parallelization Concepts.- Fortran and c as Programming Languages.-OpenMP and MPI for Parallelization.- Amdahl's Law.- 4. Practise (how to configure and purchase).- Benchmarks.- System Configuration.- Purchasing.

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