High Performance Computational Science and Engineering: IFIP TC5 Workshop on High Performance Computational Science and Engineering (HPCSE), World ... in Information and Communication Technology) [Hardcover]

Michael K. Ng (Editor), Andrei Doncescu (Editor), Laurence T. Yang (Editor), Tau Leng (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0387240489 | ISBN-13: 978-0387240480 | Publication Date: February 15, 2005 | Edition: 1

Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance Computational Science and Engineering 2004 (IFIP World Computer Congress) is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of computational science and engineering.

Computational Science and Engineering is increasingly becoming an emerging and promising discipline in shaping future research and development activities in academia and industry ranging from engineering, science, finance, economics, arts and humanitarian fields.  New challenges are in modeling of complex systems, sophisticated algorithms, advanced scientific and engineering computing, and associated (multi-disciplinary) problem solving environments.  The papers presented in this volume are specially selected to address the most up-to-date ideas, results, work-in-progress and research experience in the area of high performance computational techniques for science and engineering applications.

This state-of-the-are volume presents the proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance Computational Science and Engineering, held  in conjunction with the IFIP World Computer Congress, August 2004, in Toulouse, France.

The collection will be important not only for computational science and engineering experts and researchers but for all teachers and administrators interested in high performance computational techniques.

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The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication.  The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction.  Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured.  These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research.  The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.

 

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• Hardcover: 247 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387240489
• ISBN-13: 978-0387240480
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars covers three essential topics in HPC, July 18, 2005

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This review is from: High Performance Computational Science and Engineering: IFIP TC5 Workshop on High Performance Computational Science and Engineering (HPCSE), World ... in Information and Communication Technology) (Hardcover)

This text contains selected papers from the International Symposium on High Performance Computational Science and Engineering that was help in France on August 27, 2004. This conference is focused on new research in algorithm, computational complexity and essentially problem solving using high-performance systems. Three topics in high-performance computation are covered in this text: distributed computing, numerical computation and computational applications.

The key note that needs to be mentioned is the fact that the papers covered in this text are engineering focused, and thus very applicable. In fact, the last section of this text, computational applications, are case studies from different researchers, each focusing on a specific application: image analysis for biological systems, satellite system optimization problem, optimization technique for Airline reservation and text classification in the World Wide Web using Neural Network. These papers represent real-world problems and applications of where the problems are very complex, and ingenuity is required to come up with an efficient algorithm to solve the problem at hand. The fact that problems are taken from the real world gives the reader a good sense of the overall picture of the text. I read this section on algorithms first, and then I went back to the other chapters of the text; this way I had a better appreciation of what the rest of the authors were talking about.

Distributed computing has been around for sometime now, but there are still complex problems surrounding distributed memory management that hunt the researchers. The first section of this text covers the main problems in distributed computing, and especially problems surrounding distributed shared memory. Another complex problem with distributed systems is the uncertainty of the overall static and dynamic performance of the system. Two papers cover this very complex topic, and given an insight of the available tools and techniques used for simulation and modeling of distributed systems.

Algorithms and related topics are covered in a section titled Numerical Computations. Three papers are selected that focus on optimization of currently in place algorithms such as the Poisson equation, extraction of zeros in large analytic functions and optimizing the sparse Cholesky factorization.

All and all, this text covers two important topics in high-performance computation. The section on applications reels in the topic at hand. The editors did a great job selecting the right papers to be published in this text.