Computers with sustained Petascale performance are now available and it is expected that
hardware will be developed with a peak capability in the Exascale range by around 2018 …

Most problems in science involve many scales in time and space. An example is turbulent?
ow where the important large scale quantities of lift and drag of a wing depend on the …

From the Foreword:" The authors of the chapters in this book are the pioneers who will
explore the exascale frontier. The path forward will not be easy... These authors, along with …

Extreme-Scale Computing–Where 'Just More of the Same' Does Not Work Page 1
COMPUTER 24 GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Published by the IEEE Computer Society …

These Lecture Series in Computational Science and Engineering include the proceedings of
a Summer Program in Multi-Scale Modelling and Simulation held in Lugano, Switzerland …

Scientific computation has come into its own as a mature technology in all fields of science
and engineering. Never before have we been able to accurately anticipate, analyze, and …

Single processing units have now reached a point where further major improvements in their
performance are restricted by their physical limitations. This is causing a slowing down in …

Many of the most widely used scientifc application software of today were developed largely
during a time when the typical amount of compute cores was calculated in tens or hundreds …

Exascale computing systems are essential for the scientific fields that will transform the 21st
century global economy, including energy, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and materials …

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