High Performance Computing in the Geosciences
By: edited by François-Xavier Dimet
Series: NATO Science Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 462; NATO Science Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 462
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789401040198; 9789401100335
Subjects: Oceanography; Environmental protection; Geography; Electronic data processing; Meteorology; Systems theory
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Centre de Physique, Les Houches, France, 21--25 June 1993
Description: High Performance Computing in the Geosciences surveys the state of the art of programs presently being developed which require high performance computing for their implementation, provides a guide for decision making in regard to computing directions in future numerical models, and provides an overview of future developments in massively parallel processing and their implications for numerical modelling in the geosciences.
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