High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ´15

This book presents the state-of-the-art in supercomputer simulation. It includes the latest findings from leading researchers using systems from the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) in 2015. The reports cover all fields of computational science and engineering ranging from CFD to computational physics and from chemistry to computer science with a special emphasis on industrially relevant applications. Presenting findings of one of Europe’s leading systems, this volume covers a wide variety of applications that deliver a high level of sustained performance.

The book covers the main methods in high-performance computing. Its outstanding results in achieving the best performance for production codes are of particular interest for both scientists and engineers. The book comes with a wealth of color illustrations and tables of results.

• computational science and engineering
• high performance computing
• modelling
• simulation
• vector supercomputers

• Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

  Wolfgang E. Nagel

• Abteilung für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  Dietmar H. Kröner

• Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Michael M. Resch

Wolfgang E. Nagel: Chair of Computer Architecture at Technical University Dresden, Germany. Director of the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) in Dresden; Chairman of the Advisory Board for the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS).

Dietmar Kröner: Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Freiburg. Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board for the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS).

Michael Resch: Chair of High Performance Computing at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Director of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). Winner of HPC Challenge 2003 at SC’2003, Invited Plenary Speaker at SC’07, Reno, USA. 

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