Unmatched: 50 Years of Supercomputing [Paperback]

Foreword
Preface

Acknowledgements

Short Introduction to Scientific Computing

Part I The Epoch of Big Iron

Chapter 1: In the Old Days&

Chapter 2: Vector Processes

Chapter 3: Vectorizing Applications

Chapter 4: Numerical Weather Prediction

Chapter 5: Vector Processors for Weather

Part II The Epoch of Multiprocessors

Chapter 6: Macro Parallelism

Chapter 7: Making Use of Multi-Processors

Chapter 8: Attached Processors, Microprocessors, and Mini-Supers

Chapter 9: Studying the Standard Model

Chapter 10: HPC for the Automotive Design  Early Days

Chapter 11: End of an Era

Part III The Epoch of Microprocessors

Chapter 12: Towards Massive Parallelism

Chapter 13: Engineering with HPC

Chapter 14: HPC for the Aero Industry

Chapter 15: The WRF Story

Chapter 16: Planning Ahead

Part IV The Epoch of Clusters

Chapter 17: Standardization

Chapter 18: HPC at Intel

Chapter 19: High Productivity in HPC

Chapter 20: Weather Models Impact on Our Lives

Chapter 21: Computational Life Sciences

Chapter 22: Genomics and Beyond

Part V The Epoch of Accelerators and Cloud

Chapter 23: Codesign

Chapter 24 The Changing Face of HPC

Chapter 25: HPC in the Cloud

Chapter 26: The NCAR Models

Chapter 27: Modelling the Earth System

Chapter 28: HPC, Cloud and AI for Engineering

Chapter 29: Two Scientific Anecdotes: LIGO, Fusion

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