Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale (Hardcover)

Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale focuses on the ecosystems surrounding the world’s leading centers for high performance computing (HPC). It covers many of the important factors involved in each ecosystem: computer architectures, software, applications, facilities, and sponsors.

The first part of the book examines significant trends in HPC systems, including computer architectures, applications, performance, and software. It discusses the growth from terascale to petascale computing and the influence of the TOP500 and Green500 lists. The second part of the book provides a comprehensive overview of 18 HPC ecosystems from around the world. Each chapter in this section describes programmatic motivation for HPC and their important applications; a flagship HPC system overview covering computer architecture, system software, programming systems, storage, visualization, and analytics support; and an overview of their data center/facility. The last part of the book addresses the role of clouds and grids in HPC, including chapters on the Magellan, FutureGrid, and LLGrid projects.

With contributions from top researchers directly involved in designing, deploying, and using these supercomputing systems, this book captures a global picture of the state of the art in HPC.

《當代高性能計算：從PetaScale邁向ExaScale》專注於全球領先的高性能計算（HPC）中心周圍的生態系統。它涵蓋了每個生態系統中涉及的許多重要因素：計算機架構、軟件、應用、設施和贊助商。

本書的第一部分探討了HPC系統的重要趨勢，包括計算機架構、應用、性能和軟件。它討論了從TeraScale到PetaScale計算的增長以及TOP500和Green500榜單的影響。本書的第二部分全面介紹了全球18個HPC生態系統。本部分的每一章節都描述了HPC的程式動機和重要應用；一個旗艦HPC系統的概述，包括計算機架構、系統軟件、編程系統、存儲、可視化和分析支持；以及他們的數據中心/設施的概述。本書的最後一部分討論了雲和網格在HPC中的作用，包括關於Magellan、FutureGrid和LLGrid項目的章節。

本書由直接參與設計、部署和使用這些超級計算系統的頂級研究人員貢獻，捕捉了HPC領域的最新技術全球圖景。