Petascale Computing

Parallel computing technologies have brought dramatic changes to mainstream computing; the majority of todays PC's, laptops and even notebooks incorporate multiprocessor chips with up to four processors.

Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale focuses on the ecosystems surrounding the world’s leading centers for high performance computing (HPC). It covers many of the important factors involved in each ecosystem: computer architectures, software, applications, facilities, and sponsors.