Modern software tools for scientific computing
By: Erlend Arge, Are Magnus Bruaset, Hans Petter Langtangen, editors.
Contributors: Arge, Erlend, 1960-; Bruaset, A. M.; Langtangen, Hans Petter, 1962-
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Computer software -- Development.; Object-oriented programming (Computer science); Science -- Data processing.
Description: The purpose of this book is to survey some recent advances in the development of software tools for scientific computing. This book presents 17 carefully selected and refereed chapters originally presented at the SciTools '96 Workshop in Oslo, Norway. The chapters emphasize the design of large software codes, computational efficiency, object-oriented programming in scientific computing, reliability of numerical software, and parallel computing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.