Understanding Supercomputing

by Scientific American

Overview

In this book you'll discover what constitutes a 'supercomputer', how the supercomputers of today function, how you can make your own computer into a super machine - through networking - and what tomorrow holds in store for computer usage in terms of hardware, software and everyday applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446679572
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2002
Series:	Science made Accessible Series
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.44(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Introduction	1
	Blitzing Bits	5
	The Law of More	13
	Getting More from Moore's	19
	The Future of the Transistor	29
	Microprocessors in 2020	43
	A Vertical Leap for Microchips	51
	The Semiconducting Menagerie	62
	Engineering Microscopic Machines	69
	From Chips to Cubes	77
	Quantum-Mechanical Computers	81
	Quantum Computing with Molecules	96
	Computing with Light	108
	The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer	113
	Tackling Turbulence with Supercomputers	126
	How to Build a Hypercomputer	140
	Conclusion	155
	Index	157