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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $16.00
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charles J. Murray
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Publisher: Wiley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.76100411092
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Publication Date: 1997-01
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: The SUPERMEN
"After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly fallen silent when Cray offered to answer questions. He stood there for several minutes, waiting for their queries, but none came. When he left, the head of NCAR's computing division chided the programmers. 'Why didn't someone raise a hand?' After a tense moment, one programmer replied, 'How do you talk to God?'" -from The SUPERMEN The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer
"They were building revolutionary, not evolutionary, machines. . . . They were blazing a trail-molding science into a product. . . . The freedom to create was extraordinary." -from The Supermen
In 1951, a soft-spoken, skinny young man fresh from the University of Minnesota took a job in an old glider factory in St. Paul. Computer technology would never be the same, for the glider factory was the home of Engineering Research Associates and the recent college grad was Seymour R. Cray. During his extraordinary career, Cray would be alternately hailed as "the Albert Einstein," "the Thomas Edison," and "the Evel Knievel" of supercomputing. At various times, he was all three-a master craftsman, inventor, and visionary whose disdain for the rigors of corporate life became legendary, and whose achievements remain unsurpassed.
The Supermen is award-winning writer Charles J. Murray's exhilarating account of how the brilliant-some would say eccentric-Cray and his gifted colleagues blazed the trail that led to the Information Age. This is a thrilling, real-life scientific adventure, deftly capturing the daring, seat-of-the-pants spirit of the early days of computer development, as well as an audacious, modern-day David and Goliath battle, in which a group of maverick engineers beat out IBM to become the runaway industry leaders.
Murray's briskly paced narrative begins during the final months of the Second World War, when men such as William Norris and Howard Engstrom began researching commercial applications for the code-breaking machines of wartime, and charts the rise of technological research in response to the Cold War. In those days computers were huge, cumbersome machines with names like Demon and Atlas. When Cray came on board, things quickly changed.
Drawing on in-depth interviews-including the last interview Cray completed before his untimely and tragic death-Murray provides rare insight into Cray's often controversial approach to his work. Cray could spend exhausting hours in single-minded pursuit of a particular goal, and Murray takes us behind the scenes to witness late-night brainstorming sessions and miraculous eleventh-hour fixes. Cray's casual, often hostile attitude toward management, although alienating to some, was more than a passionate need for independence; he simply thought differently than others. Seymour Cray saw farther and faster, and trusted his vision with an unassailable confidence. Yet he inspired great loyalty as well, making it possible for his own start-up company, Cray Research, to bring the 54,000-employee conglomerate of Control Data to its knees.
Ultimately, The Supermen is a story of genius, and how a unique set of circumstances-a small-team approach, corporate detachment, and a government-backed marketplace-enabled that genius to flourish. In an atmosphere of unparalleled freedom and creativity, Seymour Cray's vision and drive fueled a technological revolution from which America would emerge as the world's leader in supercomputing.
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Price: $78.00
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Sale: $22.00
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rajkumar Buyya
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Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.3
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Publication Date: 1999-05-31
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Reading Level: 881
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Description: High Performance Cluster Computing contains academic articles concerning supercomputing collected from researchers around the world. Though targeted primarily at graduate students and researchers in computer science, the general reader may find great value in its overview of the current state of high-performance computing. Computer science experts address many aspects of high performance computing, beginning with the state-of-the-art concepts and basic terminology related to cluster computing. Their investigations provide immediate solutions to engineering problems like optimized node arrangements for low-cost workstations yoked together to solve problems in parallel. One article describes such a cluster created for the Department of Energy that uses 9,000 Pentium CPUs to model nuclear detonations. Various contributors also consider the requirements necessary for improving parallel programs in terms of speed and logic, including reductions in network latencies and enhanced file and I/O access. One contributor even suggests that Network RAM--unused RAM in systems on the same network--may someday challenge the hard disk for fast--and permanent--data storage. In all, High Performance Cluster Computing works as an up-to-date, central repository of current thinking on interconnecting computers and processors to improve speed and performance. It provides a valuable roadmap of the state of the art in computer science research as well as some potential benefits for forward-looking corporate computing professionals. --Richard Dragan
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Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
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Binding: Print on Demand (Hardcover)
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Author: Zima
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Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.35
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Publication Date: 1990-10-16
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Reading Level: 376
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Price: $42.95
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Sale: $4.25
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4372
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Publication Date: 1996-11-08
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: "I became operational . . . in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997."
Inspired by HAL's self-proclaimed birth date, HAL's Legacy reflects upon science fiction's most famous computer and explores the relationship between science fantasy and technological fact. The informative, nontechnical chapters written especially for this book describe many of the areas of computer science critical to the design of intelligent machines, discuss whether scientists in the 1960s were accurate about the prospects for advancement in their fields, and look at how HAL has influenced scientific research.
Contributions by leading scientists look at the technologies that would be critical if we were, as Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick imagined thirty years ago, to try and build HAL in 1997: supercomputers, fault-tolerance and reliability, planning, artificial intelligence, lipreading, speech recognition and synthesis, commonsense reasoning, the ability to recognize and display emotion, and human-machine interaction. Not only would these technologies be critical in building HAL, but all are being explored for the design of today's intelligent machines. A separate chapter by philosopher Daniel Dennett considers the ethical implications of intelligent machines.
Profusely illustrated with color images from the film and from current research, HAL's Legacy provides surprising new perspectives on key moments in the film - you will never view 2001 the same way again.
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $1.44
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Manufacturer: W H Freeman & Co
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William J. Kaufmann::Larry L. Smarr
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Publisher: W H Freeman & Co
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Dewey Decimal Number: 502.85411
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Publication Date: 1993-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Sterling::Paul Messina::Paul H. Smith
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.251
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Publication Date: 1995-07-26
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: 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 PetaFLOP computer would perform a million billion of these operations per second.)
Chapters focus on four interrelated areas: applications and algorithms, device technology, architecture and systems, and software technology.
While a petaFLOPS machine is beyond anything within contemporary experience, early research into petaFLOPS system design and methodologies is essential to U.S. leadership in all facets of computing into the next century. The findings reported here explore new and fertile ground. Among them: construction of an effective petaFLOPS computing system will be feasible in two decades, although effectiveness and applicability will depend on dramatic cost reductions as well as innovative approaches to system software and programming methodologies; a mix of technologies such as semiconductors, optics, and possibly cryogenics will be required; and while no fundamental paradigm shift in system architecture is expected, active latency management will be essential, requiring a high degree of fine-grain parallelism and the mechanisms to exploit it.
Scientific and Engineering Computation series
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rubin H. Landau::Paul J. Fink::Paul J. Landau::Rubin H. Fink
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Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
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Edition: Pap/Dsk
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.0245
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Publication Date: 1992-12-11
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: A scientist's and engineer's guide to Workstations and Supercomputers Crack the Unix code and put its power to work for you. If you're seeking such clear-cut guidance, your search will end with the first Unix survival manual designed specifically for practicing scientists and engineers like you. Avoiding the narrower concerns and complicated jargon of computer science, this guide shows you how to master the complexities of accomplishing computer projects—from start to finish—predominantly under a Unix operating system. With the help of clarifying examples and tutorials, you'll learn how to write and organize files and programs as well as run, debug, and visualize the results of scientific programs on workstations and supercomputers. At the same time, you'll discover how to complete these projects while working on other systems and on other versions of Unix. This user-friendly guide offers you the basics on Unix commands and on setting up and using workstations, and goes on to simplify the once-daunting tasks of transferring files between workstations and adjusting X Windows. You'll also gain a solid grasp of more advanced Unix tools, such as its sophisticated editing, filing, and debugging capabilities, and of programming computers with differing architectures. Complete with accompanying computer disk packed with practice programs and data files, this book will increase your creativity, productivity, and effectiveness on the job by demonstrating how you can quickly learn to wield one of your most formidable tools—the Unix system. Covers all major versions of Unix and systems from major hardware vendors, including: System V, BSD, IBM's AIX, SUNOS, HP-UX, Unicos.
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Price: $98.00
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Sale: $98.00
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Springer
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.3
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Publication Date: 1994-08
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Reading Level: 519
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Description: High-performance computing and networking (HPCN) is driven by several initiatives in Europe, the United States, and Japan. In Europe several groups encouraged the Commission of the European Communities to start an HPCN programme. This two-volume work presents the proceedings of HPCN Europe 1994. Volume 2 includes sections on: networking, future European cooperative working possibilities in industry and research, HPCN computer centers aspects, performance evaluation and benchmarking, numerical algorithms for engineering, domain decomposition in engineering, parallel programming environments, load balancing and performance optimization, monitoring, debugging, and fault tolerance, programming languages in HPC, compilers and data parallel structures, architectural aspects, and late papers.
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Price: $90.00
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Sale: $64.41
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lloyd D. Fosdick::Elizabeth R. Jessup::Carolyn J. C. Schauble::Gitta Domik
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 502.85411
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Publication Date: 1996-04-18
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Reading Level: 750
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Description: This text evolved from a new curriculum in scientific computing that was developed to teach undergraduate science and engineering majors how to use high-performance computing systems (supercomputers) in scientific and engineering applications.
Designed for undergraduates, An Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing assumes a basic knowledge of numerical computation and proficiency in Fortran or C programming and can be used in any science, computer science, applied mathematics, or engineering department or by practicing scientists and engineers, especially those associated with one of the national laboratories or supercomputer centers.
The authors begin with a survey of scientific computing and then provide a review of background (numerical analysis, IEEE arithmetic, Unix, Fortran) and tools (elements of MATLAB, IDL, AVS). Next, full coverage is given to scientific visualization and to the architectures (scientific workstations and vector and parallel supercomputers) and performance evaluation needed to solve large-scale problems. The concluding section on applications includes three problems (molecular dynamics, advection, and computerized tomography) that illustrate the challenge of solving problems on a variety of computer architectures as well as the suitability of a particular architecture to solving a particular problem.
Finally, since this can only be a hands-on course with extensive programming and experimentation with a variety of architectures and programming paradigms, the authors have provided a laboratory manual and supporting software via anonymous ftp.
Scientific and Engineering Computation series
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Price: $149.00
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Sale: $359.09
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Italy) International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking (1995 : Milan
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Publisher: Springer
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.3
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Publication Date: 1996-06
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Reading Level: 1040
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Description: This comprehensive volume presents the refereed proceedings of the International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking, HPCN Europe 1996, held in Brussels, Belgium, in April 1996 under the sponsorship of the CEC. The 175 papers and posters included address all relevant theoretical aspects of HPCN and computational sciences as well as a variety of applicational aspects in numerous fields. The volume is organized in four tracks; industrial applications, general applications, computational science, and computer science aspects of HPCN.
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