Unmatched : 50 years of supercomputing.
"The rapid and extraordinary progress of supercomputing over the past half-century is a powerful demonstration of our relentless drive to understand and shape the world around us. In this book, David Barkai offers a unique and compelling account of this remarkable technological journey, drawing...
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Chapman & Hall/CRC computational science series.
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Table of Contents:
- Short introduction to scientific computing
- Part I. The epoch of big iron. In the old days. . .
- Vector processors
- Vectorizing applications
- Numerical weather prediction
- Vector processors for weather
- Part II. The epoch of multiprocessors. Macro parallelism
- Making use of multi-processors
- Attached processors, microprocessors, and mini-supers
- Studying the standard model
- HPC for the automotive design : early days
- End of an era
- Part III. The epoch of microprocessors. Toward massive parallelism
- Engineering with HPC
- HPC for the aero industry
- The WRF story
- Planning ahead
- Part IV. The epoch of clusters. Standardization
- HPC at intel
- High productivity in HPC
- Weather models' impact on our lives
- Computational life sciences
- Genomics and beyond
- Part V. The epoch of accelerators and cloud. Codesign
- The changing face of HPC
- HPC in the cloud
- The NCAR models
- Modeling the earth system
- HPC, cloud and AI for engineering
- Two scientific anecdotes : LIGO, fusion
- The COVID-19 campaign
- Part VI. Wrap-up and outlook. P is for performance
- Fortran : the Coarrays story
- Fortran today
- Thoughts from the guardians of Fortran
- Measure of HPC impact
- Looking forward.