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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the The International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, OSC 2008, held in Vienna, Austria, August 2008 in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Unconventional Computation UC 2008.

OCS is a new annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Design of optical computing devices, electrooptics devices for interacting with optical computing devices, practical implementations, analysis of existing devices and case studies, optical and laser switching technologies, applications and algorithms for optical devices, alpha practical, x-rays and nano-technologies for optical computing.

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The 1st International Conference on Supercomputing took place in Athens, Greece, June 8-12, 1987. The purpose of this conference was to bring together researchers from universities, industrial laboratories, and other research institutions with common interests in architectures and hardware technology, software, and applications for supercomputers. Authors from 12 countries submitted 107 papers, from which 52 were accepted and presented at the conference. In addition, 15 distinguished researchers presented invited papers. The papers from these presentations make up the current proceedings volume. Based on the quality of the papers presented and the response and excitement of the participants, the Program Committee has decided to hold annual meetings on the subject of supercomputing. ... Read more

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Although supercomputer systems are faster, and have larger memory hierarchies than other computer systems, such characteristics merely imply the existence of great potential power. How much of that power can be harnessed productively is the central theme of performance evaluation. A set of methods for evaluating the performance of applications on supercomputers has not yet been rigorously defined. This volume is a compilation of research approaches and techniques that are a promising means to that end. The contributions are grouped into three sections. Contributors to Performance looks at applications, algorithms, compilers, operating systems, and memory issues. Measurements and Metrics addresses some of the current techniques and methods of performance evaluation. Among the topics are: the performance monitoring capabilities of the CEDAR system, the methodology behind the Livermore loops, the empirical analysis of system performance, and a software simulator developed in connection with the RP3 project. Methods, Models, and Directions looks at ways of establishing a general and theoretical framework for supercomputer performance evaluation. ... Read more

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As execution speeds reach the physical limits of single cpu computers, the only hope of achieving greater computing power is with parallel systems. Researchers have proposed countless new programming languages, but their differences, similarities, strengths, weaknesses and problem domains are subtle and often not well understood. Informed comparison of parallel languages is difficult.

This volume compares eight parallel programming languages based on solutions to four problems. Each chapter includes a description of the language's philosophy, semantics and syntax, and a solution to each problem. By considering solutions rather than language features or theoretical properties, the gap is bridged between the language specialists and users. Both professionals and students in the fields of computer and computational science will find the discussions helpful and understandable.
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This text takes an engineering approach to the use of algorithms on multiprocessor machines. Almost half of the text is devoted to matrix computations. Coverage of hypercube and alliant architectures, the two most widely used supercomputers, is included. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Nonetechnology is cool!
Good book for a common reader. It is not very scientific, but gives a good understanding of what nanotechnology is and where it applies. I am a scientist who currently works in this field, and even for me it was interesting to see this kind of simple prospective without too many details.

Understanding Nanotechnology, a compilation of articles from Scientific American
"Understanding Technology", a compilation of articles from Scientific American, is an excellent book for the layperson to find out about nanotechnology.It's not too lofty or heavily technical - a big help in introducing someone to this field who might not have a background in science.Very readable and interesting.Unfortunately, the field of nanotech is changing so rapidly that many discoveries have been made since this book wasfirst published.

Nanostructures Boast Superior Results
Nano structures boast superior electrical, chemical, mechanical, or optical properties.Improvements may include circuit lines less than 100 nanometers in distance and nanoelectronic devices replacing existing electronic devices.

In 1987, Theordore A Fulton and Gerald J. Dolan of Bell Laboratories constructed the first single electron transfer.It had the advantage of low power usage and heat leapfrogging past the 2014 heat problem.In 1998 Cees Dekker's group at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands created a transistor from a carbon nanotube.In 1999, James M Tour and Mark A Reed demonstrated that single molecules could act as molecular switches.Exxon Mobile created Zeolites, minerals with pores of less than a nanometer which serve as an effective catalyst to break down or crack large hydrocarbon molecules to form gasoline.

Nanotech's vision is to assemble complex machines and circuits atom by atom.The author predicts the top down approach will be the most likely method of choice for building complex devices (electronbeam lithography, Zyvex, Quantum Dot Corporation)

Nanomechanical signal processing is constructed from a million nanomechanical elements with the advantage of only dispating a millionth of a watt of energy.Low powered Nanomechanical devices will create a proliferation and distribution of cheap, ultraminiture smart sensors.

A good introduction
If you want to know what Nanothechnology is this book will tell you. It is aimed at the "intelligent layman" and as such succeeds rather well.

I found it easier going from a stylistic point of view than Ratner's "Nanothechnology: Gentle Introduction to the next big idea". If I were to buy only one of them I should buy this one.

An excellent introduction for the new technological bang
Materials Science usually offers an unique opportunity to test our scientific models. The search for new properties in the mesoscopic realm has open such expectatives in several scientific fields -from physics and chemistry to biology and medicine- that an introductory text is a great help in order to obtain a wide view of the next scientific and technological trends. Scientific American has made this recopilation of several essays that bring together the main ideas for the new technological revolution, at a level usefull for the expert and understandable for the lay man. As a Materials Scientist I enthusiastically recommend it. ... Read more

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Chapters: DEISA, Spanish Supercomputing Network, SUPER-UX, The Journal of Supercomputing, Reconfigurable Supercomputing, Gluster, Embedded Supercomputing,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA) is a European Union supercomputer project. It is made up of a consortium of eleven leading national supercomputing centres from seven European countries. It supports pan-European research by providing and operating a distributed supercomputing environment all over Europe and aims at delivering a turnkey operational solution for a future European high-performance computing system. By extending the European collaborative environment in the area of supercomputing, DEISA follows the suggestions of ESFRI. The DEISA project started as DEISA1 in 2002 developing and supporting a pan-European distributed high performance computing infrastructure. The initial project was funded by the European Commission in FP6. The funding continued for the followup project DEISA2 in FP7. The DEISA infrastructure couples the eleven national supercomputing centres which form the DEISA consortium with a dedicated (mostly 10Gbit/s) network connection provided by GÉANT2 on the European level and the NRENs on the national level. New associate partners will also be connected to this infrastructure. There are 11 principal partners and four associate partners. The 11 principal partners are: The four associate partners are: DEISA has produced a packaged benchmark suite to help computer scientists assess the performance of parallel supercomputer systems. The benchmark comprises a number of real applications codes taken from a wide range of scientific disciplines. All the codes are packaged into a structured framewo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21325352 ... Read more

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Weather forecasting and climatology have traditionally been using the world's fastest supercomputers. The recent emergence of massively parallel supercomputers as likely successors to current vector supercomputers has created an acute need to convert weather and climate models to suit parallel supercomputers with thousands of processors. Several major efforts are underway worldwide to accomplish this. ECMWF has established itself as the central venue for gathering together operational weather forecasters, climate researchers and parallel computer manufacturers to share their experience on these efforts every second year. The recent dramatic changes in supercomputer manufacturing have made the 1992 meeting timelier than ever before. ... Read more

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Title: IBM delivers super-computing on demand.
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Title: Engenio 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel SAN technology featured in Supercomputing 2004 demo.(Storage Area Network, Engenio Information Technologies Inc.)
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Title: 2004-2005 Mississippi Supercomputing Research Expedition for high school students.
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Date: July 1, 2004
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