Enabling Technologies for Petaflops Computing

by Paul H Smith, Thomas Sterling, Paul C Messina, et al.

Building a computer ten times more powerful than all the networked computing capability in the United States is the subject of this book by leading figures in the high performance computing community. It summarizes the near-term initiatives, including the technical and policy agendas for what could be a twenty-year effort to build a petaFLOP scale computer. (A FLOP -- Floating Point OPeration -- is a standard measure of computer performance and a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262691760
• ISBN13: 9780262691765
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher