Written by high performance computing (HPC) experts, Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers provides a solid introduction to current mainstream computer architecture, dominant parallel programming models, and useful optimization strategies for scientific HPC. From working in a scientific computing center, the author
This book facilitates an intuitive understanding of performance limitations without relying on heavy computer science knowledge. It also prepares readers for studying more advanced literature.
This book is a well-recognized and leading guidebook on High Performance Computing for a broad audience of readers from industry and academia. The new edition is completely reorganized and updated to include the latest research in HPC.
This is a textbook that teaches the bridging topics between numerical analysis, parallel computing, code performance, large scale applications.
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This book provides a non-technical introduction to High Performance Computing applications together with advice about how beginners can start to write parallel programs.
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Ideal for any scientist, engineer, or student with at least introductory programming experience, this guide assumes no specialized background in GPU-based or parallel computing.
This book contains chapters summarizing the most important topics that computational researchers need to know about.
The computing power that's available on the average desktop has exploded in the past few years. A typical PC has performance exceeding that of a multi-million dollar supercomputer a mere...
High Performance Visualization: Enabling Extreme-Scale Scientific Insight focuses on the subset of scientifi