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Marvin Zelkowitz, “Advances in Computers, Volume 72: High Performance Computing”
Academic Press | 2008-06-23 | ISBN: 0123744113 | 368 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB
This is volume 72 of Advances in Computers, a series that began back in 1960 and is the oldest continuing series chronicling the ever-changing landscape of information technology.
Each year three volumes are produced, which present approximately 20
chapters that describe the latest technology in the use of computers
today. In this volume 72, we present the current status in the
development of a new generation of high-performance computers.
The computer today has become ubiquitous with millions of
machines being sold (and discarded) annually. Powerful machines are
produced for only a few hundred U.S. dollars, and one of the problems
faced by vendors of these machines is that, due to the continuing
adherence to Moores law, where the speed of such machines doubles about
every 18 months, we typically have more than enough computer power for
our needs for word processing, surfing the web, or playing video games.
However, the same cannot be said for applications that require large
powerful machines. Applications such as weather and climate prediction,
fluid flow for designing new airplanes or automobiles, or nuclear
plasma flow require as much computer power as we can provide, and even
that is not enough. Todays machines operate at the teraflop level
(trillions of floating point operations per second) and this book
describes research into the petaflop region (1,015 FLOPS). The six
chapters provide an overview of current activities that will provide
for the introduction of these machines in the years 2011 through 2015.
Each year three volumes are produced, which present approximately 20
chapters that describe the latest technology in the use of computers
today. In this volume 72, we present the current status in the
development of a new generation of high-performance computers.
The computer today has become ubiquitous with millions of
machines being sold (and discarded) annually. Powerful machines are
produced for only a few hundred U.S. dollars, and one of the problems
faced by vendors of these machines is that, due to the continuing
adherence to Moores law, where the speed of such machines doubles about
every 18 months, we typically have more than enough computer power for
our needs for word processing, surfing the web, or playing video games.
However, the same cannot be said for applications that require large
powerful machines. Applications such as weather and climate prediction,
fluid flow for designing new airplanes or automobiles, or nuclear
plasma flow require as much computer power as we can provide, and even
that is not enough. Todays machines operate at the teraflop level
(trillions of floating point operations per second) and this book
describes research into the petaflop region (1,015 FLOPS). The six
chapters provide an overview of current activities that will provide
for the introduction of these machines in the years 2011 through 2015.
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