Large-Scale Computing Techniques for Complex System Simulations

Werner Dubitzky 지음

Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr 2012년 02월 03일 출간

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Complex systems modeling and simulation approaches are being adopted in a growing number of sectors, including finance, economics, biology, astronomy, and many more.Technologies ranging from distributed computing to specialized hardware are explored and developed to address the computational requirements arising in complex systems simulations.The aim of this book is to present a representative overview of contemporary large-scale computing technologies in the context of complex systems simulations applications.The intention is to identify new research directions in this field and to provide a communications platform facilitating an exchange of concepts, ideas and needs between the scientists and technologist and complex system modelers.On the application side, the book focuses on modeling and simulation of natural and man-made complex systems.On the computing technology side, emphasis is placed on the distributed computing approaches, but supercomputing and other novel technologies are also considered.

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Foreword xiPreface xvContributors xix1. State-of-the-Art Technologies for Large-Scale Computing 1Florian Feldhaus, Stefan Freitag, and Chaker El Amrani1.1 Introduction 11.2 Grid Computing 21.3 Virtualization 61.4 Cloud Computing 81.5 Grid and Cloud: Two Complementary Technologies 121.6 Modeling and Simulation of Grid and Cloud Computing 131.7 Summary and Outlook 15References 162. The e-Infrastructure Ecosystems: Providing Local Support to Global Science 19Erwin Laure and Åke Edlund2.1 The Worldwide e-Infrastructure Landscape 192.2 BalticGrid: A Regional e-Infrastructure, Leveraging on the Global &"Mothership&" EGEE 212.3 The EGEE Infrastructure 252.4 Industry and e-Infrastructures: The Baltic Example 292.5 The Future of European e-Infrastructures: The European Grid Initiative (EGI) and the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) Infrastructures 312.6 Summary 33Acknowledgments 34References 343. Accelerated Many-Core GPU Computing for Physics and Astrophysics on Three Continents 35Rainer Spurzem, Peter Berczik, Ingo Berentzen, Wei Ge, Xiaowei Wang, Hsi-Yu Schive, Keigo Nitadori, Tsuyoshi Hamada, and José Fiestas3.1 Introduction 363.2 Astrophysical Application for Star Clusters and Galactic Nuclei 383.3 Hardware 403.4 Software 413.5 Results of Benchmarks 423.6 Adaptive Mesh Refinement Hydrosimulations 493.7 Physical Multiscale Discrete Simulation at IPE 493.8 Discussion and Conclusions 53Acknowledgments 54References 544. An Overview of the SimWorld Agent-Based Grid Experimentation Systems 59Matthew Scheutz and Jack J. Harris4.1 Introduction 594.2 System Architecture 624.3 System Implementation 674.4 A SWAGES Case Study 714.5 Discussion 744.6 Conclusions 78References 785. Repast HPC: A Platform for Large-Scale Agent-Based Modeling 81Ni

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저자(글) Werner Dubitzky

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Werner Dubitzky, PhD, is Chair of Bioinformatics at the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute in the Faculty of Life and Health Sciences at the University of Ulster. His research investigates systems biology, knowledge management in biology, grid computing, and data mining.Krzysztof Kurowski, PhD, leads the Applications Department at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in Poland. His research is focused on the modeling of advanced applications, scheduling, and resource management in networked environments.Bernhard Schott, Dipl. Phys., is the EU-Research Program Manager for Platform Computing GmbH.