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SOLVING PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS ON PARALLEL COMPUTERS

by Jianping Zhu (Mississippi State Univ.)

This is an introductory book on supercomputer applications written by a researcher who is working on solving scientific and engineering application problems on parallel computers. The book is intended to quickly bring researchers and graduate students working on numerical solutions of partial differential equations with various applications into the area of parallel processing.

The book starts from the basic concepts of parallel processing, like speedup, efficiency and different parallel architectures, then introduces the most frequently used algorithms for solving PDEs on parallel computers, with practical examples. Finally, it discusses more advanced topics, including different scalability metrics, parallel time stepping algorithms and new architectures and heterogeneous computing networks which have emerged in the last few years of high performance computing. Hundreds of references are also included in the book to direct interested readers to more detailed and in-depth discussions of specific topics.


Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Parallel Algorithms for Solving PDE
  • Implementations
  • Applications
  • Parallel Time Stepping Algorithms
  • Future Development


Readership: Computer scientists, applied mathematicians, engineers and students.

276pp Pub. date: Feb 1994
ISBN 981-02-1578-9 US$62 / £43


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Updated on 23 July 2008