Scientific Parallel Computing

by L. Ridgway Scott, Babak Bagheri, Terry Clark

Book Overview

What does Google's management of billions of Web pages have in common with analysis of a genome with billions of nucleotides? Both apply methods that coordinate many processors to accomplish a single task. From mining genomes to the World Wide Web, from modeling financial markets to global weather patterns, parallel computing enables computations that would otherwise be impractical if not impossible with sequential approaches alone. Its fundamental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069111935X
• ISBN13: 9780691119359
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 10.3"