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

by Stan Openshaw, Ian Turton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134729715
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/19/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Stan Openshaw, Ian Turton

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. High Performance Computing: why bother with it? Chapter 2. High Performance Computing applications in Geography and GIS Chapter 3. Parallel and High Performance Computing: Concepts, Principles and Theory Chapter 4. Types of Parallel Processing Hardware and Programming Paradigms Chapter 5. Programming Vector Supercomputers Chapter 6. Shared Loop and Data Parallel Programming Chapter 7. Parallel Programming using Simple Message Passing Chapter 8. Parallelising the Geographical Analysis Machine using MPI Chapter 9. Optimising performance and debugging hints Chapter 10. Putting it all together Chapter 11. Epiglogue for Geographical and Social Scientists