Publisher's Synopsis
This book presents the state-of-the-art in modelling and simulation on supercomputers.;Leading German research groups present their results achieved on high-end systems of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) for the year 2004.;The reports cover all fields of computational science and engineering ranging from computational fluid dynamics via computational physics and chemistry to computer science.;Special emphasis is given to industrially relevant applications.;Presenting results for both vector-systems and micro-processor based systems the book allows to compare performance levels and usability of a variety of supercomputer architectures.;In the light of the success of the Japanese Earth-Simulator this book may serve as a guide book for a US response.;The book covers the main methods in high performance computing.;Its outstanding results in achieving highest performance for production codes are of particular interest for both the scientist and the engineer.
