Understanding Supercomputing

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Paperback | 1 December 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Anyone alive in the latter 20th century is familiar with computers and the concept of working via these silicon-chip-driven modern wonders. A typical handheld computing device today has more computing power than a 1960s computer that would have filled an entire room. In today's world, computing size equals speed: the smaller the faster. With computing speed nearly doubling every 18 months, today's computing power is more than 100 million times that of a computer in 1970. What does the future hold for computers and their ever-growing power. In UNDERSTANDING SUPERCOMPUTING, you'll discover what constitutes a 'supercomputer', how the super-computers of today function, how you can make your own computer into a super machine - it's a matter of networking - and what tomorrow holds in store for computer usage in terms of hardware, software and everyday applications.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Hardware Mainframes & Minicomputers Science Science in General Popular Science Supercomputers Computer Science

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Blitzing Bits	p. 5
The Law of More	p. 13
Getting More from Moore's	p. 19
The Future of the Transistor	p. 29
Microprocessors in 2020	p. 43
A Vertical Leap for Microchips	p. 51
The Semiconducting Menagerie	p. 62
Engineering Microscopic Machines	p. 69
From Chips to Cubes	p. 77
Quantum-Mechanical Computers	p. 81
Quantum Computing with Molecules	p. 96
Computing with Light	p. 108
The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer	p. 113
Tackling Turbulence with Supercomputers	p. 126
How to Build a Hypercomputer	p. 140
Conclusion	p. 155
Index	p. 157
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