The Art of HPC, volume 1: The Science of Computing

The field of High Performance Computing lies at the crossroad of a number of disciplines and skill sets. Correspondingly, for someone to be successful at using HPC in science requires at least elementary knowledge of and skills in all these areas. The series "The Art of High Performance Computing" brings together the components that make up the toolbox of a computational scientist.

Volume 1, "The Science of Computing" provides HPC practitioners the conceptual background to understand and employ the techniques of the field. Major chapters cover processor architecture, parallel computer design, computer arithmetic, computational aspects of numerical modeling. All this is brought together in analyses of the performance behavior of common computational algorithms.

Victor Eijkhout is a research scientist at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of The University of Texas at Austin.