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High Performance Computing

Modern Systems and Practices

1st Edition - December 5, 2017

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  • Authors: Thomas Sterling, Maciej Brodowicz, Matthew Anderson
  • eBook ISBN: 9780124202153
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780124201583

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Description

High Performance Computing: 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.

Key Features

  • Covers enabling technologies, system architectures and operating systems, parallel programming languages and algorithms, scientific visualization, correctness and performance debugging tools and methods, GPU accelerators and big data problems
  • Provides numerous examples that explore the basics of supercomputing, while also providing practical training in the real use of high-end computers
  • Helps users with informative and practical examples that build knowledge and skills through incremental steps
  • Features sidebars of background and context to present a live history and culture of this unique field
  • Includes online resources, such as recorded lectures from the authors’ HPC courses

Readership

Graduate or senior undergraduate students studying parallelism and high-performance computing; professionals and researchers looking to master high-performance computing

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
    2. HPC Architecture
    3. Commodity Clusters
    4. Benchmarking
    5. The Essential Moab
    6. SMP
    7. The Essential OpenMP
    8. The Essential MPI
    9. Parallel Algorithms
    10. Libraries
    11. Operating Systems
    12. Scientific Visualization
    13. Performance Monitoring
    14. Debugging
    15. Accelerators
    16. Essential OpenACC
    17. Mass Storage
    18. File Systems
    19. Map Reduce
    20. Checkpointing
    21. Beyond (Next Steps)

    Appendices: Essential C
    Linux User Interface

Product details

  • No. of pages: 718
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Morgan Kaufmann 2017
  • Published: December 5, 2017
  • Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
  • eBook ISBN: 9780124202153
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780124201583

About the Authors

Thomas Sterling

Thomas Sterling is Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He serves as the Executive Associate Director of the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST) and as its Chief Scientist. He is most widely known for his pioneering work in commodity cluster computing as leader of the Beowulf Project for which he and colleagues were awarded the Gordon Bell Prize. Professor Sterling currently leads a team of researchers at IU to enable a new generation of extreme scale computing systems and applications. He is the co-author of six books and holds six patents. He has taught a graduate level course upon which this textbook will be heavily informed, five times.

Affiliations and Expertise

Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Maciej Brodowicz

Maciej Brodowicz is Advanced Parallel Computing Engineer at the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST) at Indiana University.

Affiliations and Expertise

Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Matthew Anderson

Affiliations and Expertise

Department of English, University of New England, Maine, USA

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  • Pedor M. Fri Jan 26 2018

    Very good book for a course in High Performance Computing

    The book integrated a large set of knowledge that is absent from similar books. Also different from other books is the availability of chapters useful for people that is not from computer science. The part dedicated to algorithms is smaller than usual.