Research and Applications in Global Supercomputing

Covering a broad range of topics in the field of supercomputing, this up-to-date book presents the concepts of supercomputing, explores its technologies and their applications, and develops a broad understanding of issues pertaining to the use of supercomputing in multidisciplinary fields. It highlights the historical and technical background, architecture, programming systems, storage, visualization, analytics, state of practice in industry, universities and government, and numerous applications ranging from such areas as computational earth and atmospheric sciences to computational medicine. There are 17 chapters divided into four sections: overview to global supercomputing and its current challenges; supercomputing applications; supercomputer theory; supercomputing leadership and philosophy. Chapters are: overview of global supercomputing; history of supercomputing and supercomputer centers; applications and current challenges of supercomputing across multiple domains of computational sciences; accelerated discovery and design of nano-material applications in nuclear power by using high performance scientific computing; using high performance scientific computing to accelerated the discovery and design of nuclear power applications; applications of supercomputers in sequence analysis and genome annotation; applications of supercomputers in population genetics; supercomputers in modeling of biological systems; role of supercomputers in bioinformatics; energy network operation in the supercomputing era; steganography encoding as inverse data mining; cloud computing: future of the past; programming paradigms in high performance computing; data mining for high performance computing; super leaders: supercomputing leadership for the future; supercomputers: a philosophical perspective; supercomputers: a philosophy of their language. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)