Handbook of research on computational science and engineering theory and practice /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Leng, Joanna, 1965-, Sharrock, W. W.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2011.
• Subjects: Science > Data processing.; Engineering mathematics > Data processing.; Numerical analysis > Data processing.; Mathematical models.; Computer simulation.; Computational applications; Computational science and engineering (CSE); Hardware trends; High performance computing; Numerical methods; Organizational and sociological issues; Programming paradigms; Software development tools; Visualization
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"This book offers a timely introduction to the possibilities in computational science and engineering to advance the ongoing research and applications leading to the discovery of new resources and cutting edge developments"--

Table of Contents:

• 1. Hardware trends and implications for programming models / Gabriele Jost and Alice E. Koniges
• 2. Multi-threaded architectures: evolution, costs, opportunities / Ivan Girotto and Robert M. Farber
• 3. High-performance customizable computing / Domingo Benitez
• 4. High-performance computing for theoretical study of nanoscale and molecular interconnects / Rasit O. Topaloglu, Swati R. Manjari and Saroj K. Nayak
• 5. Effective open-source performance analysis tools / Prashobh Balasundaram
• 6. Pragmatic software engineering for computational science / David Worth, Chris Greenough and Shawn Chin
• 7. A framework for testing code in computational applications / Diane Kelly, Daniel Hook and Rebecca Sanders
• 8. Developing software for a scientific community: some challenges and solutions / Judith Segal and Chris Morris
• 9. Opportunities and challenges in porting a parallel code from a tightly-coupled system to the distributed EU grid, enabling grids for E-sciencE / Fumie Costen and Akos Balasko
• 10. Development of an efficient and secure mobile communication system with new future directions / Abid Yahya ... [et al.]
• 11. Parallel quantum chemistry at the crossroads / Hubertus J. J. van Dam
• 12. Stochastic simulations in systems biology / Marc Hafner and Heinz Koeppl
• 13. Some illustrations of information geometry in biology and physics / C. T. J. Dodson
• 14. DQ based methods: theory and application to engineering and physical sciences / Stefania Tomasiello
• 15. Mesh morphing and smoothing by means of radial basis functions (RBF): a practical example using fluent and RBF morph / Marco Evangelos Biancolini
• 16. Visualization: future technology and practices for computational science and engineering / Joanna Leng, Theresa-Marie Rhyne and Wes Sharrock
• 17. Visualizing indicators of debt crises in a lower dimension: a self-organizing maps approach / Peter Sarlin
• 18. Improving computational models and practices: scenario testing and forecasting the spread of infectious disease / Iain Barrass and Joanna Leng
• 19. Artificial neural network modelling of sequencing batch reactor performance / Eldon R. Rene ... [et al.]
• 20. The state of development of CSE / Joanna Leng and Wes Sharrock
• 21. Integrating data management and collaborative sharing with computational science research processes / Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Mark James and Andrew M. Walker
• 22. Security and trust in a global research infrastructure / Jens Jensen and David L. Groep
• 23. CSE as epistemic technologies: computer modeling and disciplinary difference in the humanities / Matt Ratto
• 24. Science communication with dinosaurs / Phillip L. Manning and Peter L. Falkingham.