| High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ' 06: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (Hlrs) 2006 Contributor(s): Nagel, Wolfgang E. (Editor), Jäger, Willi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3642071600 ISBN-13: 9783642071607 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Data Processing - Computers | Computer Science - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
| Dewey: 502.85 |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.70 lbs) 546 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The last two years have been great for high performance computing in Baden- W] urttemberg and beyond. In July 2005, the new building for HLRS as well as Stuttgart's new NEC supercomputer - which is still leading edge in G- many - have been inaugurated. In these days, the SSC Karlsruhe is ?nalizing the installation of a very large high performance system complex from HP, built from hundreds of Intel Itanium processors and more than three th- sand AMD Opteron cores. Additionally, the fast network connection - with a bandwidth of 40Gbit/s and thus one of the ?rst installations of this kind in Germany - brings the machine rooms of HLRS and SSC Karlsruhe very close together. With the investment of more than 60 Million Euro, we - as the users of such a valuable infrastructure - are not only thankful to science managers and politicians, but also to the people running these components as part of their daily business, on a 24-7 level. Sinceabout18months, therearelotsofactivitiesonallscienti?c, advisory, and political levels to decide if Germany will install an even larger European supercomputer, where the hardware costs alone will be around 200 Million Euro for a ?ve year period. There are many good reasons to invest in such a program because - beyond the infrastructure - such a scienti?c research tool will attract the best brains to tackle the problems related to the software and methodology challenges. |