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PAPERBACK price:$34.75 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 Getting Up to Speed: The Future of Supercomputing Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure Other Related Titles The Future of Supercomputing: An Interim Report (2003) Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) 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 B: Acronyms." The Future of Supercomputing: An Interim Report . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003. Please select a format: Page 43   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 43 Front Matter (R1-R12) Executive Summary (1-4) 1. Introduction (5-8) 2. Supercomputing Past and Present (9-17) 3. Continuity and Predictability (18-21) 4. Future Supercomputing and Research (22-27) 5. The Role of Government in Supercomputing (28-30) 6. Conclusion (31-32) Appendix A: Committee Member and Staff Biographies (33-42) Appendix B: Acronyms (43-44) Appendix C: Briefers to the Committee (45-45) What Is CSTB? (46-46)

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B Acronyms ACP advanced cyberinfrastructure program AMD Advanced micro devices ASC Advanced Simulation and Computing "formerly Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI)] ASCI Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative COTS commercial off-the-shelf CSTB Computer Science and Telecommunications Board DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DDR&E Director of Defense Research and Engineering DOD Department of Defense DOE Department of Energy ES Earth Simulator GAO Government Accounting Office HPC high-performance computer HPCCI High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative HPCS high productivity computing systems IHEC integrated high-end computing ISV independent software vendor ITRD Information Technology Research and Development JASONs a group of scientific advisors that provides the federal government with largely classified analyses LANE Los Alamos National Laboratory LINPACK library of FORTRAN 77 routines for solving problems in numerical linear algebra. It is used for benchmarking the speed of supercomputers. MPI message passing interface NIH National Institutes of Health MESA National Nuclear Security Administration 43

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44 NSA NSB NSF PACI PCI PITAC SFI SIMD SMP THE FUTURE OF SUPERCOMPUTING: ANINTERIMREPORT National Security Agency National Science Board National Science Foundation Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure peripheral component interconnect or interface President's Information Technology Advisory Committee Significant Finding Issue single instruction multiple data shared-memory multiprocessor

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