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Today, parallel computing experts can solve problems previously deemed impossible and make the "merely difficult" problems economically feasible to solve. This book presents and synthesizes the recent experiences of reknown expert developers who design robust and complex parallel computing applications. They demonstrate how to adapt and implement today s most advanced, most effective parallel computing techniques. The book begins with a highly focused introductory course designed to provide a working knowledge of all the relevant architectures, programming models, and performance issues, as well as the basic approaches to assessment, optimization, scheduling, and debugging. Next comes a series of seventeen detailed case studies" all dealing with production-quality industrial and scientific applications, all presented firsthand by the actual code developers. Each chapter follows the same comparison-inviting format, presenting lessons learned and algorithms developed in the course of meeting real, non-academic challenges. A final section highlights the case studies most important insights and turns an eye to the future of the discipline. * Provides in-depth case studies of seventeen parallel computing applications, some built from scratch, others developed through parallelizing existing applications. * Explains elements critical to all parallel programming environments, including: ** Terminology and architectures ** Programming models and methods ** Performance analysis and debugging tools * Teaches primarily by example, showing how scientists in many fields have solved daunting problems using parallel computing. * Covers a wide range ofapplication areas" biology, aerospace, semiconductor design, environmental modeling, data imaging and analysis, fluid dynamics, and more. * Summarizes the state of the art while looking to the future of parallel computing.

The past 50 years have witnessed a revolution in computing and related communications technologies. The contributions of industry and university researchers to this revolution are manifest; less widely recognized is the major role the federal government played in launching the computing revolution and sustaining its momentum. Funding a Revolution examines the history of computing since World War II to elucidate the federal government's role in funding computing research, supporting the education of computer scientists and engineers, and equipping university research labs. It reviews the economic rationale for government support of research, characterizes federal support for computing research, and summarizes key historical advances in which government-sponsored research played an important role. Funding a Revolution contains a series of case studies in relational databases, the Internet, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality that demonstrate the complex interactions among government, universities, and industry that have driven the field. It offers a series of lessons that identify factors contributing to the success of the nation's computing enterprise and the government's role within it.

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