Janusz S. Kowalik 
Supercomputing [PDF ebook] 

Supercomputing is an important science and technology that enables the scientist or the engineer to simulate numerically very complex physical phenomena related to large-scale scientific, industrial and military applications. It has made considerable progress since the first NATO Workshop on High-Speed Computation in 1983 (Vol. 7 of the same series). This book is a collection of papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Trondheim, Norway, in June 1989. It presents key research issues related to: – hardware systems, architecture and performance; – compilers and programming tools; – user environments and visualization; – algorithms and applications. Contributions include critical evaluations of the state-of-the-art and many original research results.