Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science

by Larry L. Smarr and William J. Kaufmann III

Book Overview

The development of the supercomputer has given scientists an awesome new capability: the power to virtually re-create the physical world on the computer screen, with a stunning degree of precision and sophistication. Everything from weather systems to biochemical interactions to car crashes to air pollution to high speed subatomic particle collisions can now be simulated, manipulated, and observed at the scientist's will.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716750384
• ISBN13: 9780716750383
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Big and fast iron

Easy to read overview of the field of supercomputing. Describes technologies (eg, relays to highly integrated circuits) and architectures (eg, scalar to vector, multiprocessor and massively parallel) used to effect supercomputing. Describes applications of supercomputing in physics, in constructing evolutionary trees from sequencing data, in molecular biology, engineering, planetary sciences, weather forecasting, and cosmology.