Methods in computational chemistry. Volume 3, Concurrent computation in chemical calculations / edited by Stephen Wilson.
Recent years have seen the proliferation of new computer designs that employ parallel processing in one form or another in order to achieve maximum performance. Although the idea of improving the performance of computing machines by carrying out parts of the computation concurrently is not new (inde...
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| Summary: | Recent years have seen the proliferation of new computer designs that employ parallel processing in one form or another in order to achieve maximum performance. Although the idea of improving the performance of computing machines by carrying out parts of the computation concurrently is not new (indeed, the concept was known to Babbage), such machines have, until fairly recently, been confined to a few specialist research laboratories. Nowadays, parallel computers are commercially available and they are finding a wide range of applications in chemical calculations. The purpose of this volume is to review the impact that the advent of concurrent computation is already having, and is likely to have in the future, on chemical calculations. Although the potential of concurrent computation is still far from its full realization, it is already clear that it may turn out to be second in importance only to the introduction of the electronic digital computer itself. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1989. "Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781461574163 1461574161 1461574188 9781461574187 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |