Contemporary ergonomics and human factors 2011

 Content: Contemporary high performance computing / Jeffrey S. Vetter --
 HPC challenge: design, history, and implementation highlights / Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek --
 The green500 list: a look back to look forward / Wu-Chun Feng, Kirk Cameron, and Thomas Scogland --
 Tera 100 / Mickaël Amiet ... [et al.] --
 The mole-8.5 supercomputing system / Xiaowei Wang and Wei Ge --
 Supercomputing in the DoD high performance computing modernization program / John E. West, Roy L. Campbell, and Larry P. Davis --
 Keeneland: computational science using heterogeneous GPU computing / Jeffrey S. Vetter ... [et al.] --
 Blue gene/P: Jugene / Nobert Attig ... [et al.] --
 Roadrunner: the dawn of accelerated computing / Sriram Swaminarayan --
 Blue gene/Q: sequoia and Mira / William E. Allcock ... [et al.] --
 ''Lomonosov'': supercomputing at Moscow State University / Victor Sadovnichy ... [et al.] --
 Pleiades: NASA's first petscale supercomputer / Rupak Biswas ... [et al.] --
 The blue waters super-system for super-science / Brett Bode ... [et al.] --
 Kraken: the first academic petaflop computer / Mark R. Fahey ... [et al.] --
 Titan: 20-petaflop cray XK7 at Oak Ridge national laboratory / Arthur Bland ... [et al.] --
 Blacklight: coherent shared memory for enabling science / Nick Nystrom ... [et al.] --
 Gordon: a novel architecture for data intensive computing / Pietro Cicotti ... [et al.] --
 Monte Rosa: architectural features and a path towards exascale / Sadaf R. Alam ... [et al.] --
 Tianhe:1A supercomputer: system and application / Xiangke Liao, Yutong Lu, and Min Xie --
 TSUBAME2.0: the first petscale supercomputer in Japan and the greatest production in the world / Satoshi Matsuoka ... [et al.] --
 HA-PACS: a highly accelerated parallel advanced system for computational sciences / Taisyke Boku ... [et al.] --
 Magellan: a testbed to explore cloud computing for science / Lavanya Ramakrishnan ... [et al.] --
 FutureGrid: a reconfigurable testbed for cloud, HPC, and grid computing / Geoffrey C. Fox ... [et al.] --
 LLGrid: supercomputer for sensor processing / Jeremy Kepner ... [et al.].
 Abstract:             ''While there are many important systems in high performance computing (HPC) available today, the HPC community lacks a single reference on the key aspects of the systems, such as application workloads, procurement timeline, and facilities specification. This book provides the first comprehensive resource to describe these systems and their hardware and software architectures. The first part of the book explores current trends in HPC. The second part presents detailed descriptions of deployed systems that span a number of architectures, application workloads, facilities, and sponsors''--
''Preface We are pleased to present you with this collection of material that captures a snapshot of the rich history of practice in Contemporary High Performance Computing. As evidenced in the chapters of this book, High Performance Computing continues to flourish, both in industry and research, both domestically and internationally. While much of the focus of HPC is on the hardware architectures, a significant ecosystem is responsible for this success. Why I edited this book My goal with this book has been to highlight significant systems and facilities in high performance computing. Early on, my main focus was proposed to be on the architectural design of important and successful HPC systems. However, I realized that HPC is about more than just hardware: it is an ecosystem that includes software, applications, facilities, educators, software developers, scientists, administrators, sponsors, and many other factors. This book is a snapshot of these contemporary HPC ecosystems, which are typically punctuated with a site's flagship system. Broadly speaking, HPC is growing internationally, so I invited contributions from a broad base of organizations including the USA, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, and Switzerland. My excitement about this book grew as I started inviting authors to contribute: everyone said 'yes!' In fact, due to the limitations on hardback publishing, we had to limit the number of chapters that we could include in this edition; however, change in HPC is accelerating, so a second edition of this book may be warranted. As I explain in the introduction, the rate of change in HPC is accelerating''