| High Performance Computing and the Art of Parallel Programming: An Introduction for Geographers, Social Scientists and Engineers Contributor(s): Openshaw, Stan (Author), Turton, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415156920 ISBN-13: 9780415156929 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $308.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: High Perfomance Computing and the Art of Parallel Computing provides a non-technical introduction to High Performance Computing applications together with advice about how beginners can start to write parallel programs. Using case studies to show where HPC has already been used and providing examples for other areas of application to geography, GIS and the social sciences, it provides a plain and practical introduction to a subject that is usually surrounded by complex computer jargon. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Client-server Computing - General - Computers | Programming - General - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography |
| Dewey: 004.36 |
| LCCN: 99018439 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.16" W x 9.64" (1.53 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides a non-technical introduction to High Performance Computing applications together with advice about how beginners can start to write parallel programs. The authors show what HPC can offer geographers and social scientists and how it can be used in GIS. They provide examples of where it has already been used and suggestions for other areas of application in geography and the social sciences. Case studies drawn from geography explain the key principles and help to understand the logic and thought processes that lie behind the parallel programming. |