california institute technology concurrent supercomputing (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28, wraps, illus. (some in color), inserts at front and rear covers. Innovative format--14 pages for one section and then 14 pages starting from the back. Item can start to be read from either back or front. This is an item that might have been distributed at a supercomputing conference or other technical or academic forum. This is an important technology snapshot at the time Teraops and Petaops computing was beginning to move from futurism to be within technical and manufacturing reach.

Brochure. Zustand: Very good. Format is approx. 8 inches by 12 inches. Illus. 14 pages from one side is The Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium brochure, with a 12 page CSC Update in the front pocket. The contents include an Executive Summary, The Growing Importance of High-Performance Computing, Formation of the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium, Mission of the CSC, Acquisition of the Touchstone Delta, Advanced Computing Activities of the CSC, and Network Connection. Flip around and from the other side is the 14 page CSC Scientific and Engineering Applications portion of this brochure. In the front pocket is a pamphlet with the members of the Consortium. The contents include: CSC Scientific and Engineering Applications, Global Climate Modeling, Environmental Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Astrophysics, Space Science, Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Materials Science, Numerical Methods and Analysis, Computer Science, and Distributed Computing to High-Speed Networks Dr. Paul Messina is a senior strategic advisor at the ALCF who focuses on future directions for the facility. In 2002-2004, he served as Distinguished Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne and as Adviser to the Director General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Previously at Caltech, Dr. Messina served as Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research, as Assistant Vice President for Scientific Computing, and as Faculty Associate for Scientific Computing. He led the Computational and Computer Science component of Caltech's research project funded by the Academic Strategic Alliances Program of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative. He also acted as Co-principal Investigator for the National Virtual Observatory and TeraGrid. At Argonne, he held a number of positions from 1973-1987 and was the founding Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.