Simulation and Visualization on the Grid by Bjrn Engquist

Simulation and Visualization on the Grid by Bjrn Engquist

It is now 30 years since the network for digital communication, the ARPA-net, first came into operation. Since the first experiments with sending electronic mail and performing file transfers, the development of networks has been truly remarkable. Today's Internet continues to develop at an exponential rate that even surpasses that of computing and storage technologies. About five years after being commercialized, it has become as pervasive as the tele- phone had become 30 years after its initial deployment. In the United States, the size of the Internet industry already exceeds that of the auto industry, which has been in existence for about 100 years. The exponentially increas- ing capabilities of communication, computing, and storage systems is also reshaping the way science and engineering are pursued. Large-scale simulation studies in chemistry, physics, engineering, and sev- eral other disciplines may now produce data sets of, several terabytes or petabytes. Similarly, almost all measurements today produce data in digital form, whether from collections of sensors, three-dimensional digital images, or video. These data sets often represent complex phenomena that require rich visualization capabilities and efficient data-mining techniques to under- stand. Furthermore, the data may be produced and archived in several differ- ent locations, and the analysis carried out by teams with members at several locations-possibly distinct from those with significant storage, computation, or visualization facilities. The emerging computational Grids enable the transparent use of remote instruments, computational and data resources.

The Author: Lennart Johnsson (born 1955) has completed a B.A. and M.Div. at Uppsala University. He took a licentiate degree in Studies in Faiths and Ideologies (1987) and presented his doctoral thesis in Ecclesiology (1999), both at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is senior lecturer and head of Religious Studies at Vü¾†”¼xjü¾¦˜¼ University, Sweden.
Johnsson has worked as a teacher in Uppsala and also as a university chaplain (Church of Sweden) in Uppsala and parish minister in both Stockholm and Wederslü¾¦˜¼f.

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ISBN 13	9783540672647
ISBN 10	3540672648
Title	Simulation and Visualization on the Grid
Author	Bjrn Engquist
Series	Lecture Notes In Computational Science And Engineering
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer
Year published	2000-06-21
Number of pages	304
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