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PAPERBACK price:$39.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Computational Technology for Effective Health Care:Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling Other Related Titles The Potential Impact of High-End Capability Computing on Four Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering (2008) Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix C: Glossary." The Potential Impact of High-End Capability Computing on Four Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008. Please select a format: Page 141   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix C Glossary Clade Group of species Exascale Computing at quintillions of flops per second Giant Molecular Cloud A large cloud of molecular gas and small solid particles from which new generations of stars form Heuristic Algorithm based on one or more rules of thumb rather than on a theoretical model Magnetohydrodynamics Study of the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids Morphology External character of an organism Multicore Pertaining to a computer chip with multiple processing units on it, or a computer that includes such chips Ontology Set of defined concepts that characterize a domain Orographic Caused by airflow over hills or mountains Petaflop Quadrillion floating point operations Petascale Computing at quadrillions of flops per second Phenotype Observable characteristics of an individual Page 141 Front Matter (R1-R16) Summary (1-8) 1 Problem Definition and History (9-14) 2 The Potential Impact of HECC in Astrophysics (15-36) 3 The Potential Impact of HECC in the Atmospheric Sciences (37-62) 4 The Potential Impact of HECC in Evolutionary Biology (63-88) 5 The Potential Impact of HECC in Chemical Separations (89-104) 6 Numerical and Algorithmic Characteristics of HECC That Will Be Required by the Selected Fields (105-120) 7 Conclusions (121-126) Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members (127-132) Appendix B: Agendas of Committee Meetings (133-140) Appendix C: Glossary (141-142)

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The Potential Impact of High-End Capability Computing on Four Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering Appendix C Glossary Clade Group of species Exascale Computing at quintillions of flops per second Giant Molecular Cloud A large cloud of molecular gas and small solid particles from which new generations of stars form Heuristic Algorithm based on one or more rules of thumb rather than on a theoretical model Magnetohydrodynamics Study of the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids Morphology External character of an organism Multicore Pertaining to a computer chip with multiple processing units on it, or a computer that includes such chips Ontology Set of defined concepts that characterize a domain Orographic Caused by airflow over hills or mountains Petaflop Quadrillion floating point operations Petascale Computing at quadrillions of flops per second Phenotype Observable characteristics of an individual

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The Potential Impact of High-End Capability Computing on Four Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering Phylogenetics Relationships of groups of organisms as reflected by their evolutionary history Stiff differential equations Coupled differential equations that include some terms that lead to rapid variations; they must be handled with special solvers to avoid instabilities Symplectic integrators Discretizations that have a Hamiltonian structure analogous to that of the dynamics being approximated Teraflop Trillion floating point operations Terascale Computing at trillions of flops per second