Heterogeneous Computing & Multidisciplinary Applications Proceedings of the Eighth NEC Research Symposium (Proceedings in Applied Mathematics 100) (Proceedings in Applied Mathermatics, 100) - Hardcover

Koike, N.; Germany, NEC Research Symposium 1997 Berlin

 
9780898714494: Heterogeneous Computing & Multidisciplinary Applications Proceedings of the Eighth NEC Research Symposium (Proceedings in Applied Mathematics 100) (Proceedings in Applied Mathermatics, 100)

Synopsis

Symposium held in Berlin, Germany, May 1997.

This book covers a broad spectrum of topics relating to leading-edge developments in scientific computing, including meta-computers and their use; networked computing; interoperability of architectures and programming models; coupled simulations involving multiple physical modeling; and compatibility of independent simulations of various phenomena for the design of a single product.

This symposium brought together technology providers, application program developers, and industrial users of high performance computing systems. The articles address the current and future developments of computing systems for numerical simulation seen from these various viewpoints. The main issues raised include these questions:

 Clustered computing: should we be looking for commodity PC-clusters or more efficient ways to exploit the networking of large computing centers?

 As the expectations of numerical simulation increase, what strategies should be adopted to handle multiphysics, multiscale applications?

 Once we have the heterogeneous computing systems with interacting applications software, what technologies are required to incorporate these within the industrial concern’s design infrastructure?

This proceedings collection doesn’t completely answer all of these questions, but it does demonstrate that major advances are being made toward providing technological solutions to these questions, and it poses problems to be addressed in the future.

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