High Performance Computing and the Art of Parallel Programming - An Introduction for Geographers, Social Scientists and Engineers

Informationen zum Autor Stan Openshaw, Ian Turton Klappentext This book provides a non-technical introduction to High Performance Computing applications together with advice about how beginners can start to write parallel programs. The authors show what HPC can offer geographers and social scientists and how it can be used in GIS. They provide examples of where it has already been used and suggestions for other areas of application in geography and the social sciences. Case studies drawn from geography explain the key principles and help to understand the logic and thought processes that lie behind the parallel programming. Zusammenfassung Concerned with the art rather than the science of Parallel Programming, this volume provides a plain and practical introduction to a subject that has previously been heavily encrypted in computer jargon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. High Performance Computing: why bother with it?Chapter 2. High Performance Computing applications in Geography and GISChapter 3. Parallel and High Performance Computing: Concepts, Principles and TheoryChapter 4. Types of Parallel Processing Hardware and Programming ParadigmsChapter 5. Programming Vector SupercomputersChapter 6. Shared Loop and Data Parallel ProgrammingChapter 7. Parallel Programming using Simple Message PassingChapter 8. Parallelising the Geographical Analysis Machine using MPIChapter 9. Optimising performance and debugging hintsChapter 10. Putting it all togetherChapter 11. Epiglogue for Geographical and Social Scientists

Product details

• Authors: Stan Openshaw, Stan Turton Openshaw, Openshaw Stan, Ian Turton, Turton Ian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.1999
• EAN: 9780415156929
• ISBN: 978-0-415-15692-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General, computer science, Computer programming / software engineering, Human Geography, Society and Social Sciences, Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing, Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing