Research and Applications in Global Supercomputing

Rapidly generating and processing large amounts of data, supercomputers are currently at the leading edge of computing technologies. Supercomputers are employed in many different fields, establishing them as an integral part of the computational sciences.

Research and Applications in Global Supercomputing investigates current and emerging research in the field, as well as the application of this technology to a variety of areas. Highlighting a broad range of concepts, this publication is a comprehensive reference source for professionals, researchers, students, and practitioners interested in the various topics pertaining to supercomputing and how this technology can be applied to solve problems in a multitude of disciplines.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Overview to Global Supercomputing and its Current Challenges
Chapter 1: Overview of Global Supercomputing
Chapter 2: History of Supercomputing and Supercomputer Centers
Chapter 3: Applications and Current Challenges of Supercomputing across Multiple Domains of Computational Sciences

Section 2: Supercomputing Applications
Chapter 4: Accelerated Discovery and Design of Nano-Material Applications in Nuclear Power by Using High Performance Scientific Computing
Chapter 5: Using High Performance Scientific Computing to Accelerate the Discovery and Design of Nuclear Power Applications
Chapter 6: Applications of Supercomputers in Sequence Analysis and Genome Annotation
Chapter 7: Applications of Supercomputers in Population Genetics
Chapter 8: Supercomputers in Modeling of Biological Systems
Chapter 9: Role of Supercomputers in Bioinformatics
Chapter 10: Energy Network Operation in the Supercomputing Era

Section 3: Supercomputer Theory
Chapter 11: Steganography Encoding as Inverse Data Mining
Chapter 12: Cloud Computing
Chapter 13: Programming Paradigms in High Performance Computing
Chapter 14: Data Mining for High Performance Computing

Section 4: Supercomputing Leadership and Philosophy
Chapter 15: Super Leaders
Chapter 16: Supercomputers
Chapter 17: Supercomputers

Appendix: The Top 500 Supercomputers in the World