Supercomputers and Fluid Dynamics: Proceedings of the First Nobeyama Workshop September 3 6, 1985 (Lecture Notes in Engineering (24))

ISBN 10: 3540170510 / ISBN 13: 9783540170518

Published by Springer, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Supercomputers and Fluid Dynamics: Proceedings of the First Nobeyama Workshop September 3 6, 1985 (Lecture Notes in Engineering (24))
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540170510
• ISBN 13: 9783540170518
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

In the past several years, it has become apparent that computing will soon achieve a status within science and engineering to the classical scientific methods of laboratory experiment and theoretical analysis. The foremost tools of state-of-the-art computing applications are supercomputers, which are simply the fastest and biggest computers available at any given time. Supercomputers and supercomputing go hand-in-hand in pacing the development of scientific and engineering applications of computing. Experience has shown that supercomputers improve in speed and capability by roughly a factor 1000 every 20 years. Supercomputers today include the Cray XMP and Cray-2, manufactured by Cray Research, Inc., the Cyber 205, manufactured by Control Data Corporation, the Fujitsu VP, manufactured by Fujitsu, Ltd., the Hitachi SA-810/20, manufactured by Hitachi, Ltd., and the NEC SX, manufactured by NEC, Inc. The fastest of these computers are nearly three orders-of-magnitude faster than the fastest computers available in the mid-1960s, like the Control Data CDC 6600. While the world-wide market for supercomputers today is only about 50 units per year, it is expected to grow rapidly over the next several years to about 200 units per year.