Jack Dongarra - Böcker

Distributed and Cloud Computing

From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

836 kr

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Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid, service-oriented architecture, massively parallel processors, peer-to-peer networking, and cloud computing. It is the first modern, up-to-date distributed systems textbook; it explains how to create high-performance, scalable, reliable systems, exposing the design principles, architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, distributed, and cloud computing systems.

Topics covered by this book include: facilitating management, debugging, migration, and disaster recovery through virtualization; clustered systems for research or ecommerce applications; designing systems as web services; and social networking systems using peer-to-peer computing. The principles of cloud computing are discussed using examples from open-source and commercial applications, along with case studies from the leading distributed computing vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Each chapter includes exercises and further reading, with lecture slides and more available online.

This book will be ideal for students taking a distributed systems or distributed computing class, as well as for professional system designers and engineers looking for a reference to the latest distributed technologies including cloud, P2P and grid computing.

Complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid, service-oriented architecture, massively parallel processors, peer-to-peer networking, and cloud computing Includes case studies from the leading distributed computing vendors: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and more Explains how to use virtualization to facilitate management, debugging, migration, and disaster recovery Designed for undergraduate or graduate students taking a distributed systems course-each chapter includes exercises and further reading, with lecture slides and more available online

MPI - The Complete Reference

Volume 1, The MPI Core

AvMarc Snir,Steve W. Ottom. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

111 kr

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MPI - The Complete Reference

AvMarc Snir,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

160 kr

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Cereals and Pseudocereals

AvJack Dongarra

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

2 107 kr

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The world continues to depend heavily upon a relatively small range of crops for food, fuel, fibre and industrial use, while many potentially good, economically acceptable alternatives exist. This book, which is the second in a series looking at underutilized crops, provides thorough details of those underutilized cereals and pseudocereals which are currently benefitting from research and others which have been neglected and deserve more research attention. "Cereals and Pseudocereals" considers in detail the potential for the following crops: quinoa, buckwheat, grain amaranth, triticale, fonio, intermediate wheatgrass and wild rice. Under the guidance of the International Centre for Underutilized Crops, the contents of this book have been drawn together by Professor Williams, who has wide research experience in the exploitation of new crops.The contents of this book should be of great interest and use to a wide range of people involved in work on the greater exploitation of currently underutilized crops, including upper level students in agricultural, plant and food sciences, researchers in development agencies and scientists working directly on improvement and exploitation of this group of crops.

Pulses and Vegetables

AvJack Dongarra

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

2 107 kr

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The world continues to depend heavily upon a relatively minor range of crops for food, fuel, fibre and industrial use while many potentially good economically acceptable alternatives exist. This book, which is the first in a new series looking at underutilized crops, provides thorough details of those crops which research has suggested may be worthy of further and greater commercial development and exploitation, suggesting potential alternatives to existing widely-exploited crops. "Pulses and Vegetables" considers in detail the potential for the following crops: yam bean, bambara groundnut, celosia, lupins, vegetable jute, opuntia, palm hearts and soyabean leaves. Under the guidance of the International Centre for Underutilized Crops the contents of this book have been drawn together by Professor Williams (based at the Headquarters of the Fund for Agricultural Research) who has wide research experience in the exploitation of new crops.The contents of this book should be of interest and use to a wide range of people involved in work on the greater exploitation of currently underutilized crops, including upper level students in agricultural, plant and food science, researchers in development agencies and scientists working directly on improvement and exploitation of this group of crops. This book should be of interest to research and professional level agricultural scientists, plant scientists, nutritionists, development agencies, policy makers.

Del 78 - Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing

High Performance Heterogeneous Computing

AvJack Dongarra,Alexey L. Lastovetsky

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

1 424 kr

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An analytical overview of the state of the art, open problems, and future trends in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computingThis book provides an overview of the ongoing academic research, development, and uses of heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing in the context of scientific computing. Presenting the state of the art in this challenging and rapidly evolving area, the book is organized in five distinct parts: Heterogeneous Platforms: Taxonomy, Typical Uses, and Programming IssuesPerformance Models of Heterogeneous Platforms and Design of Heterogeneous AlgorithmsPerformance: Implementation and SoftwareApplicationsFuture TreHigh Performance Heterogeneous Computing is a valuable¿reference for researchers and practitioners in the area of high performance heterogeneous computing. It also serves as an excellent supplemental text for graduate and postgraduate courses in related areas.

Del 57 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2

Large Scale Computations in Air Pollution Modelling

AvZahari Zlatev,Jørgen Brandtm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

537 kr

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The protection of the environment is one of the most important problems facing us today. Reliable and robust strategies for keeping pollution caused by harmful chemicals under safe levels have to be developed and used routinely. Large mathematical models, incorporating all important physical and chemical processes, can solve this task, but the computational burden is huge. The papers presented here describe some of the difficult problems that have to be solved during the development of large scale air pollution models, and different ways to solve them. The work involves combined research by specialists in the fields of environmental modelling, numerical analysis and scientific computing. Further, if models are to run in real time (which may be vital in the case of accidental hazardous releases), then new and efficient methods that harness the potential power of parallel supercomputers must be developed, so that actual computing speed starts to approach the maximum available performance. The articles should be understandable by specialists in the field of air pollution modelling, as well as specialists in the many other related areas.

Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators

AvJakub Kurzak,David A. Baderm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

1 052 kr

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The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial performance challenges for developers, including scalability, software tuning, and programming issues. Researchers at the Forefront Reveal Results from Their Own State-of-the-Art WorkEdited by some of the top researchers in the field and with contributions from a variety of international experts, Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators focuses on the architectural design and implementation of multicore and manycore processors and accelerators, including graphics processing units (GPUs) and the Sony Toshiba IBM (STI) Cell Broadband Engine (BE) currently used in the Sony PlayStation 3. The book explains how numerical libraries, such as LAPACK, help solve computational science problems; explores the emerging area of hardware-oriented numerics; and presents the design of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) and a parallel list ranking algorithm for the Cell BE. It covers stencil computations, auto-tuning, optimizations of a computational kernel, sequence alignment and homology, and pairwise computations. The book also evaluates the portability of drug design applications to the Cell BE and illustrates how to successfully exploit the computational capabilities of GPUs for scientific applications. It concludes with chapters on dataflow frameworks, the Charm++ programming model, scan algorithms, and a portable intracore communication framework.Explores the New Computational Landscape of Hybrid Processors By offering insight into the process of constructing and effectively using the technology, this volume provides a thorough and practical introduction to the area of hybrid computing. It discusses introductory concepts and simple examples of parallel computing, logical and performance debugging for parallel computing, and advanced topics and issues related to the use and building of many applications.

Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators

AvJakub Kurzak,David A. Baderm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

3 032 kr

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The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial performance challenges for developers, including scalability, software tuning, and programming issues. Researchers at the Forefront Reveal Results from Their Own State-of-the-Art WorkEdited by some of the top researchers in the field and with contributions from a variety of international experts, Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators focuses on the architectural design and implementation of multicore and manycore processors and accelerators, including graphics processing units (GPUs) and the Sony Toshiba IBM (STI) Cell Broadband Engine (BE) currently used in the Sony PlayStation 3. The book explains how numerical libraries, such as LAPACK, help solve computational science problems; explores the emerging area of hardware-oriented numerics; and presents the design of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) and a parallel list ranking algorithm for the Cell BE. It covers stencil computations, auto-tuning, optimizations of a computational kernel, sequence alignment and homology, and pairwise computations. The book also evaluates the portability of drug design applications to the Cell BE and illustrates how to successfully exploit the computational capabilities of GPUs for scientific applications. It concludes with chapters on dataflow frameworks, the Charm++ programming model, scan algorithms, and a portable intracore communication framework.Explores the New Computational Landscape of Hybrid Processors By offering insight into the process of constructing and effectively using the technology, this volume provides a thorough and practical introduction to the area of hybrid computing. It discusses introductory concepts and simple examples of parallel computing, logical and performance debugging for parallel computing, and advanced topics and issues related to the use and building of many applications.

The Sourcebook of Parallel Computing

AvJack Dongarra,Ian Fosterm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

924 kr

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Parallel Computing is a compelling vision of how computation can seamlessly scale from a single processor to virtually limitless computing power. Unfortunately, the scaling of application performance has not matched peak speed, and the programming burden for these machines remains heavy. The applications must be programmed to exploit parallelism in the most efficient way possible. Today, the responsibility for achieving the vision of scalable parallelism remains in the hands of the application developer.

This book represents the collected knowledge and experience of over 60 leading parallel computing researchers. They offer students, scientists and engineers a complete sourcebook with solid coverage of parallel computing hardware, programming considerations, algorithms, software and enabling technologies, as well as several parallel application case studies. The Sourcebook of Parallel Computing offers extensive tutorials and detailed documentation of the advanced strategies produced by research over the last two decades application case studies. The Sourcebook of Parallel Computing offers extensive tutorials and detailed documentation of the advanced strategies produced by research over the last two decades* Provides a solid background in parallel computing technologies* Examines the technologies available and teaches students and practitioners how to select and apply them* Presents case studies in a range of application areas including Chemistry, Image Processing, Data Mining, Ocean Modeling and Earthquake Simulation* Considers the future development of parallel computing technologies and the kinds of applications they will support

Del 12044 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

13th International Conference, PPAM 2019, Bialystok, Poland, September 8–11, 2019, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Ewa Deelmanm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

537 kr

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The two-volume set LNCS 12043 and 12044 constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2019, held in Bialystok, Poland, in September 2019.The 91 regular papers presented in these volumes were selected from 161 submissions.

Del 12043 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

13th International Conference, PPAM 2019, Bialystok, Poland, September 8–11, 2019, Revised Selected Papers, Part I

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Ewa Deelmanm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

855 kr

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The two-volume set LNCS 12043 and 12044 constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2019, held in Bialystok, Poland, in September 2019.The 91 regular papers presented in these volumes were selected from 161 submissions.

Del 13826 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

14th International Conference, PPAM 2022, Gdansk, Poland, September 11–14, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part I

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

749 kr

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This two-volume set, LNCS 13826 and LNCS 13827, constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2022, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2022.The 77 regular papers presented in these volumes were selected from 132 submissions.

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics : 14th International Conference, PPAM 2022, Gdansk, Poland, September 11-14, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarra

Engelska, 2023

653 kr

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Del 13827 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

14th International Conference, PPAM 2022, Gdansk, Poland, September 11–14, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

1 279 kr

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This two-volume set, LNCS 13826 and LNCS 13827, constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2022, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2022. The 77 regular papers presented in these volumes were selected from 132 submissions.

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics : 14th International Conference, PPAM 2022, Gdansk, Poland, September 11-14, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarra

Engelska, 2023

653 kr

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Del 2241 - Communications in Computer and Information Science

Parallel Computational Technologies

18th International Conference, PCT 2024, Chelyabinsk, Russia, April 2–4, 2024, Revised Selected Papers

AvLeonid Sokolinsky,Mikhail Zymblerm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

881 kr

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This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies, PCT 2024, held in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in April 2024. The 22 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions.

Del 15579 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

15th International Conference, PPAM 2024, Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 8–11, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part I

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

961 kr

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and Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing.Part II : First PPAM Workshop on RISC-V (RISC-V PPAM 2024); and Second Workshop on Quantum Computing and Communication. Part III : First Workshop on Advancements of Global Challenges Application;

Del 15580 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

15th International Conference, PPAM 2024, Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 8–11, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

961 kr

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and Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing.Part II : First PPAM Workshop on RISC-V (RISC-V PPAM 2024); and Second Workshop on Quantum Computing and Communication. Part III : First Workshop on Advancements of Global Challenges Application;

Del 15581 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

15th International Conference, PPAM 2024, Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 8–11, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part III

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

707 kr

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and Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing.Part II : First PPAM Workshop on RISC-V (RISC-V PPAM 2024); and Second Workshop on Quantum Computing and Communication. Part III : First Workshop on Advancements of Global Challenges Application;

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Parallel Computational Technologies

19th International Conference, PCT 2025, Moscow, Russia, April 8–10, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

AvLeonid Sokolinsky,Mikhail Zymblerm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

876 kr

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies, PCT 2025, held in Moscow, Russia, during April 8–10, 2025.The 31 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. These papers were organized under the following topical sections: High Performance Architectures, Tools and Technologies; Parallel Numerical Algorithms; and Supercomputer Simulation.

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

11th International Conference, PPAM 2015, Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part I

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Ewa Deelmanm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

553 kr

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This two-volume set LNCS 9573 and LNCS 9574 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2015, held in Krakow, Poland, in September 2015.The 111 revised full papers presented in both volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions.

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

11th International Conference, PPAM 2015, Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part II

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Ewa Deelmanm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

553 kr

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This two-volume-set (LNCS 9573 and 9574) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2015, held in Krakow, Poland, in September 2015.

Del 9697 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

High Performance Computing

31st International Conference, ISC High Performance 2016, Frankfurt, Germany, June 19-23, 2016, Proceedings

AvJulian M. Kunkel,Pavan Balajim. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

553 kr

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference, ISC High Performance 2016 [formerly known as the International Supercomputing Conference] held in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2016. The 25 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions.

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

12th International Conference, PPAM 2017, Lublin, Poland, September 10-13, 2017, Revised Selected Papers, Part I

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

553 kr

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The two-volume set LNCS 10777 and 10778 constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2017, held in Lublin, Poland, in September 2017. The 49 regular papers presented in this volume were selected from 98 submissions.

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

12th International Conference, PPAM 2017, Lublin, Poland, September 10-13, 2017, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

AvRoman Wyrzykowski,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

537 kr

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The two-volume set LNCS 10777 and 10778 constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2017, held in Lublin, Poland, in September 2017. The 49 regular papers presented in the proceedings were selected from 98 submissions.

Del 10860 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Computational Science – ICCS 2018

18th International Conference, Wuxi, China, June 11–13, 2018, Proceedings, Part I

AvYong Shi,Haohuan Fum. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

553 kr

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The three-volume set LNCS 10860, 10861 + 10862 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018, held in Wuxi, China, in June 2018.The total of 155 full and 66 short papers presented in this book set was carefully reviewed and selected from 404 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Part I: ICCS Main TrackPart II: Track of Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks; Track of Agent-Based Simulations, Adaptive Algorithms and Solvers; Track of Applications of Matrix Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Track of Architecture, Languages, Compilation and Hardware Support for Emerging ManYcore Systems; Track of Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science; Track of Computational Finance and Business Intelligence; Track of Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation; Track of Data, Modeling, and Computation in IoT and Smart Systems; Track of Data-Driven Computational Sciences; Track of Mathematical-Methods-and-Algorithms for Extreme Scale; Track of Multiscale Modelling and SimulationPart III: Track of Simulations of Flow and Transport: Modeling, Algorithms and Computation; Track of Solving Problems with Uncertainties; Track of Teaching Computational Science; Poster Papers

Del 10861 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Computational Science – ICCS 2018

18th International Conference, Wuxi, China, June 11-13, 2018, Proceedings, Part II

AvYong Shi,Haohuan Fum. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

1 165 kr

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The three-volume set LNCS 10860, 10861 and 10862 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018, held in Wuxi, China, in June 2018.The total of 155 full and 66 short papers presented in this book set was carefully reviewed and selected from 404 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Part I: ICCS Main TrackPart II: Track of Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks; Track of Agent-Based Simulations, Adaptive Algorithms and Solvers; Track of Applications of Matrix Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Track of Architecture, Languages, Compilation and Hardware Support for Emerging ManYcore Systems; Track of Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science; Track of Computational Finance and Business Intelligence; Track of Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation; Track of Data, Modeling, andComputation in IoT and Smart Systems; Track of Data-Driven Computational Sciences; Track of Mathematical-Methods-and-Algorithms for Extreme Scale; Track of Multiscale Modelling and SimulationPart III: Track of Simulations of Flow and Transport: Modeling, Algorithms and Computation; Track of Solving Problems with Uncertainties; Track of Teaching Computational Science; Poster Papers

Del 10862 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Computational Science – ICCS 2018

18th International Conference, Wuxi, China, June 11–13, 2018 Proceedings, Part III

AvYong Shi,Haohuan Fum. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

1 165 kr

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The three-volume set LNCS 10860, 10861 and 10862 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018, held in Wuxi, China, in June 2018.The total of 155 full and 66 short papers presented in this book set was carefully reviewed and selected from 404 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Part I: ICCS Main TrackPart II: Track of Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks; Track of Agent-Based Simulations, Adaptive Algorithms and Solvers; Track of Applications of Matrix Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Track of Architecture, Languages, Compilation and Hardware Support for Emerging ManYcore Systems; Track of Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science; Track of Computational Finance and Business Intelligence; Track of Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation; Track of Data, Modeling, andComputation in IoT and Smart Systems; Track of Data-Driven Computational Sciences; Track of Mathematical-Methods-and-Algorithms for Extreme Scale; Track of Multiscale Modelling and SimulationPart III: Track of Simulations of Flow and Transport: Modeling, Algorithms and Computation; Track of Solving Problems with Uncertainties; Track of Teaching Computational Science; Poster Papers

High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2002

5th International Conference, Porto, Portugal, June 26-28, 2002. Selected Papers and Invited Talks

AvJosé M.L.M. Palma,Jack Dongarram. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

1 099 kr

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, VECPAR 2002, held in Porto, Portugal in June 2002. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on fluids and structures, data mining, computing in chemistry and biology, problem solving environments, computational linear and non-linear algebra, cluster computing, imaging, and software tools and environments.