Scientific Programming and Computer Architecture

by Divakar Viswanath

A variety of programming models relevant to scientists explained, with an emphasis on how programming constructs map to parts of the computer.

What makes computer programs fast or slow? To answer this question, we have to get behind the abstractions of programming languages and look at how a computer really works. This book examines and explains a variety of scientific programming models (programming models relevant to scientists) with an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036290
• ISBN13: 9780262036290
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher