High Performance Computing: Modern Systems and Practices

by Thomas Sterling

High Performance Modern Systems and Practices is a fully comprehensive and easily accessible treatment of high performance computing, covering fundamental concepts and essential knowledge while also providing key skills training. With this book, domain scientists will learn how to use supercomputers as a key tool in their quest for new knowledge. In addition, practicing engineers will discover how supercomputers can employ HPC systems and methods to the design and simulation of innovative products, and students will begin their careers with an understanding of possible directions for future research and development in HPC. Those who maintain and administer commodity clusters will find this textbook provides essential coverage of not only what HPC systems do, but how they are used.

718 pages, Paperback

Published December 19, 2017

About the author

Thomas L. Sterling (* 1921; secretary, publicist, married to Claire Sterling - since 1951; crime writer, both lived in Rome for decades)