Research and applications in global supercomputing / Richard S. Segall, Jeffrey S. Cook, and Qingyu Shang

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Section 1. Overview to global supercomputing and its current challenges -- Chapter 1. Overview of global supercomputing -- Chapter 2. History of supercomputing and supercomputer centers -- Chapter 3. Applications and current challenges of supercomputing across multiple domains of computational sciences -- Section 2. Supercomputing applications -- Chapter 4. Accelerated discovery and design of nano-material applications in nuclear power by using high performance scientific computing -- Chapter 5. Using high performance scientific computing to accelerate the discovery and design of nuclear power applications -- Chapter 6. Applications of supercomputers in sequence analysis and genome annotation -- Chapter 7. Applications of supercomputers in population genetics -- Chapter 8. Supercomputers in modeling of biological systems -- Chapter 9. Role of supercomputers in bioinformatics -- Chapter 10 : Energy network operation in the supercomputing era -- Section 3. Supercomputer theory -- Chapter 11 : Steganography encoding as inverse data mining -- Chapter 12. Cloud computing : future of the past -- Chapter 13. Programming paradigms in high performance computing -- Chapter 14. Data mining for high performance computing -- Section 4. Supercomputing leadership and philosophy -- Chapter 15. Super leaders : supercomputing leadership for the future -- Chapter 16. Supercomputers : a philosophical perspective -- Chapter 17. Supercomputers : a philosophy of their language

Research and applications in global supercomputing investigates current and emerging research in the field, as well as the application of this technology to a variety of areas.