Download or read book Astronomy the Human Quest for Understanding written by Dale A. Ostlie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since humans first looked up at the stars, astronomy has had a particular ability to stir the imagination and challenge the thinking of scientists and non-scientists alike. Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding is an introductory astronomy textbook specifically designed to relate to non-science majors across a wide variety of disciplines, nurture their curiosity, and develop vital science-based critical-thinking skills. This textbook provides an introduction to how science operates in practice and what makes it so successful in uncovering nature's secrets. Given that the study of astronomy dates back thousands of years, it is the ideal subject for tracing the development of the physical sciences and how our evolving understanding of nature has influenced, and been influenced by, mathematics, philosophy, religion, geography, politics, and more. This historical approach also illustrates how wrong turns have been taken, and how the inherent self-correcting nature of science through constant verification and the falsifiability of truly scientific theories ultimately leads us back to a more productive path in our quest for understanding. This approach also points out why, as a broadly educated citizenry, students of all disciplines must understand how scientists arrive at conclusions, and how science and technology have become central features of modern society. In discussing this fascinating and beautiful universe of which we are a part, it is necessary to illustrate the fundamental role that mathematics plays in decoding nature's mysteries. Unlike other similar textbooks, some basic mathematics is integrated naturally into the text, together with interpretive language, and supplemented with numerous examples; additional tutorials are provided on the book's companion website. Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding leads the reader down the path to our present-day understanding of our Solar System, stars, galaxies, and the beginning and evolution of our universe, along with profound questions still to be answered in this ancient, yet rapidly changing field.

Download or read book Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture written by Linda Null and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture focuses on the function and design of the various components necessary to process information digitally. This title presents computing systems as a series of layers, taking a bottom–up approach by starting with low-level hardware and progressing to higher-level software. Its focus on real-world examples and practical applications encourages students to develop a “big-picture” understanding of how essential organization and architecture concepts are applied in the computing world. In addition to direct correlation with the ACM/IEEE guidelines for computer organization and architecture, the text exposes readers to the inner workings of a modern digital computer through an integrated presentation of fundamental concepts and principles.

Download or read book Supercomputers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virtual You written by Peter Coveney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our future Virtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These virtual copies will usher in a new era of personalized medicine, one in which your digital twin can help predict your risk of disease, participate in virtual drug trials, shed light on the diet and lifestyle changes that are best for you, and help identify therapies to enhance your well-being and extend your lifespan—but thorny challenges remain. In this deeply illuminating book, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield reveal what it will take to build a virtual, functional copy of a person in five steps. Along the way, they take you on a fantastic voyage through the complexity of the human body, describing the latest scientific and technological advances—from multiscale modeling to extraordinary new forms of computing—that will make “virtual you” a reality, while also considering the ethical questions inherent to realizing truly predictive medicine. With an incisive foreword by Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan, Virtual You is science at its most astounding, showing how our virtual twins and even whole populations of virtual humans promise to transform our health and our lives in the coming decades.

Download or read book High Performance Computing written by Thomas Sterling and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Computing: Modern Systems and Practices is a fully comprehensive and easily accessible treatment of high performance computing, covering fundamental concepts and essential knowledge while also providing key skills training. With this book, students will begin their careers with an understanding of possible directions for future research and development in HPC, domain scientists will learn how to use supercomputers as a key tool in their quest for new knowledge, and practicing engineers will discover how supercomputers can employ HPC systems and methods to the design and simulation of innovative products. This new edition has been fully updated, and has been reorganized and restructured to improve accessibility for undergraduate students while also adding trending content such as machine learning and a new chapter on CUDA. - Covers enabling technologies, system architectures and operating systems, parallel programming languages and algorithms, scientific visualization, correctness and performance debugging tools and methods, GPU accelerators, and big data problems - Provides numerous examples that explore the basics of supercomputing while also providing practical training in the real use of high-end computers - Helps users with informative and practical examples that build knowledge and skills through incremental steps - Features sidebars of background and context to present a live history and culture of this unique field

Download or read book Industry 4 0 to Industry 5 0 written by Susu Nousala and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Storage Systems written by Alexander Thomasian and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storage Systems: Organization, Performance, Coding, Reliability and Their Data Processing was motivated by the 1988 Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks proposal to replace large form factor mainframe disks with an array of commodity disks. Disk loads are balanced by striping data into strips—with one strip per disk— and storage reliability is enhanced via replication or erasure coding, which at best dedicates k strips per stripe to tolerate k disk failures. Flash memories have resulted in a paradigm shift with Solid State Drives (SSDs) replacing Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) for high performance applications. RAID and Flash have resulted in the emergence of new storage companies, namely EMC, NetApp, SanDisk, and Purestorage, and a multibillion-dollar storage market. Key new conferences and publications are reviewed in this book.The goal of the book is to expose students, researchers, and IT professionals to the more important developments in storage systems, while covering the evolution of storage technologies, traditional and novel databases, and novel sources of data. We describe several prototypes: FAWN at CMU, RAMCloud at Stanford, and Lightstore at MIT; Oracle's Exadata, AWS' Aurora, Alibaba's PolarDB, Fungible Data Center; and author's paper designs for cloud storage, namely heterogeneous disk arrays and hierarchical RAID. - Surveys storage technologies and lists sources of data: measurements, text, audio, images, and video - Familiarizes with paradigms to improve performance: caching, prefetching, log-structured file systems, and merge-trees (LSMs) - Describes RAID organizations and analyzes their performance and reliability - Conserves storage via data compression, deduplication, compaction, and secures data via encryption - Specifies implications of storage technologies on performance and power consumption - Exemplifies database parallelism for big data, analytics, deep learning via multicore CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs, e.g., Google's Tensor Processing Units

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence written by David R. Martinez and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first text to take a systems engineering approach to artificial intelligence (AI), from architecture principles to the development and deployment of AI capabilities. Most books on artificial intelligence (AI) focus on a single functional building block, such as machine learning or human-machine teaming. Artificial Intelligence takes a more holistic approach, addressing AI from the view of systems engineering. The book centers on the people-process-technology triad that is critical to successful development of AI products and services. Development starts with an AI design, based on the AI system architecture, and culminates with successful deployment of the AI capabilities. Directed toward AI developers and operational users, this accessibly written volume of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Series can also serve as a text for undergraduate seniors and graduate-level students and as a reference book. Key features: In-depth look at modern computing technologies Systems engineering description and means to successfully undertake an AI product or service development through deployment Existing methods for applying machine learning operations (MLOps) AI system architecture including a description of each of the AI pipeline building blocks Challenges and approaches to attend to responsible AI in practice Tools to develop a strategic roadmap and techniques to foster an innovative team environment Multiple use cases that stem from the authors’ MIT classes, as well as from AI practitioners, AI project managers, early-career AI team leaders, technical executives, and entrepreneurs Exercises and Jupyter notebook examples

Download or read book Making IT Sustainable written by Mikhail Gloukhovtsev and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making IT Sustainable: Techniques and Applications delves into how energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy use in Information Technology (IT) or broader – in Information Communications Technology (ICT) – can contribute to the goal of remediating the impact of climate change. New technologies to reduce the IT carbon footprint are investigated and new methods of server high-density liquid cooling and intelligent power management in data centers are discussed. The book asks several insightful questions: How can environmentally sustainable data centers be built? How do we compare the carbon footprint of data centers versus public cloud, and cloud-focused IT sustainability standards? As growth in data traffic such as video streaming requires additional internet infrastructure, leading to higher emissions, how is this challenge being addressed and how can we improve energy efficiency in IT such as Adiabatic Reversible Computing, use of direct current, and dematerialization are discussed? For many companies and organizations, IT sustainability is becoming important in the environmental category of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This book provides actionable, practical information for IT companies to develop their IT sustainability programs. IT directors and managers responsible for these programs will find the book useful. As pros and cons of various technology solutions for achieving IT sustainability are critically reviewed in detail, the book can serve as a practical guide for IT professionals working on implementing IT sustainability solutions. - Presents various initiatives to address IT sustainability, looking at approaches for improving energy efficiency in IT such as Adiabatic Reversible Computing, use of direct current, and dematerialization - Focuses on the design of sustainable IT systems and aims to be solution oriented - Reviews innovations in software development that contribute to GHG emission reductions such as Rust programming language - Investigates innovations in data center technologies, green software, adiabatic reversible computing, and cloud computing

Download or read book Exascale Computing written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2022-07-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Exascale Computing Exascale computing is a measurement of the capability of supercomputers; it refers to computing systems that are capable of calculating at least "1018 IEEE 754 Double Precision (64-bit) operations (multiplications and/or additions) per second (exaFLOP)." How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Exascale computing Chapter 2: Supercomputer Chapter 3: FLOPS Chapter 4: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Chapter 5: TOP500 Chapter 6: Performance per watt Chapter 7: Green500 Chapter 8: Petascale computing Chapter 9: List of fastest computers Chapter 10: Manycore processor Chapter 11: Supercomputing in India Chapter 12: K computer Chapter 13: Supercomputing in Japan Chapter 14: Supercomputing in Europe Chapter 15: Xeon Phi Chapter 16: Summit (supercomputer) Chapter 17: Frontier (supercomputer) Chapter 18: Fugaku (supercomputer) Chapter 19: Fujitsu A64FX Chapter 20: Aurora (supercomputer) Chapter 21: JUWELS (II) Answering the public top questions about exascale computing. (III) Real world examples for the usage of exascale computing in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of exascale computing' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of exascale computing.

Download or read book High Performance Computing written by Abhinav Bhatele and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 38th International Conference on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2023, which took place in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2023. The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Architecture, Networks, and Storage; HPC Algorithms & Applications; Machine Learning, AI, & Quantum Computing; Performance Modeling, Evaluation, & Analysis; and Programming Environments & Systems Software.

Download or read book Asynchronous Many Task Systems and Applications written by Patrick Diehl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book China s e Science Blue Book 2020 written by Chinese Academy of Sciences and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “China’s e-Science Blue Book 2020” has been jointly compiled by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cyberspace Administration of China, Ministry of Education of the PRC, Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC, China Association for Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It was focusing on the new situation, new progress and new achievements of China's e-Scientific in the past two years. During the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, Chinese scholars make full use of advanced information technology to carry out scientific research work, and have achieved a series of major scientific and technological achievements. This book has collected 28 research reports about China’s e-Science application in the past two years to introduce the application in the frontier research of science and technology, the progress of e-Science in major projects and the achievements of informatization in interdisciplinary. As such it provides a valuable reference resource for researchers and students in this area and promotes further e-Science research.

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Download or read book Big Data written by Hassan A. Karimi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, since the publication of the first edition, there have been new advances in solving complex geoinformatics problems. Advancements in computing power, computing platforms, mathematical models, statistical models, geospatial algorithms, and the availability of data in various domains, among other things, have aided in the automation of complex real-world tasks and decision-making that inherently rely on geospatial data. Of the many fields benefiting from these latest advancements, machine learning, particularly deep learning, virtual reality, and game engine, have increasingly gained the interest of many researchers and practitioners. This revised new edition provides up-to-date knowledge on the latest developments related to these three fields for solving geoinformatics problems. FEATURES Contains a comprehensive collection of advanced big data approaches, techniques, and technologies for geoinformatics problems Provides seven new chapters on deep learning models, algorithms, and structures, including a new chapter on how spatial metaverse is used to build immersive realistic virtual experiences Presents information on how deep learning is used for solving real-world geoinformatics problems This book is intended for researchers, academics, professionals, and students in such fields as computing and information, civil and environmental engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, geology, geography, and urban studies.

Download or read book High Performance Computing written by Amanda Bienz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 38th International Conference on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2023, held in Hamburg, Germany, during May 21–25, 2023. The 49 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. ISC High Performance 2023 presents the following workshops: ​2nd International Workshop on Malleability Techniques Applications in High-Performance Computing (HPCMALL) 18th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 23) HPC I/O in the Data Center (HPC IODC) Workshop on Converged Computing of Cloud, HPC, and Edge (WOCC’23) 7th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization (WOIV’23) Workshop on Monitoring and Operational Data Analytics (MODA23) 2nd Workshop on Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platforms: Scalable Infrastructures First International Workshop on RISC-V for HPC Second Combined Workshop on Interactive and Urgent Supercomputing (CWIUS) HPC on Heterogeneous Hardware (H3)

Download or read book Cloud Computing Tools And Techniques written by Dr. Mohammed Inamur Rahman and published by AG PUBLISHING HOUSE (AGPH Books). This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As it is known already that cloud computing is a very relevant technology to the contemporary time and the technology linked with the cloud computing really a game changing shot in the field of technologies, for the reason that any type of modern technological process needs computation at max. so, the infrastructure for this process is not readily available everywhere but the sole technology of the cloud computation and data storage solved this problem single handedly. This book named cloud computing tools and technique is a writing containing a whole range of topic related to the cloud computing and related topic. From the first chapter itself in the book, the overview of the cloud computing is explained in a brilliant manner. It covers the relevant topic to cloud computing such as: origin of cloud and its history till recent, essential characteristics and also a comparison between traditional and cloud infrastructure. In the beginning of the second chapter all the side topic including architectural influences, some cloud scenarios and regulatory issues are denoted briefly. The fourth chapter highlights the cloud simulator namely CloudSim and GreenCloud and their properties and characteristics in short. Finally the fifth and last chapter explores the domain of the VMware and concept and processes around the topic. After reading this entire book one will surely realize that this book all containing and simply written text about the topic of cloud computing and its tool and techniques.