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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781720943303
One of the most significant challenges in large-scale climate modeling, as well as in high-performance computing in other scientific fields, is that of effectively integrating many software models from multiple contributors. A software framework facilitates the integration task. both in the development and runtime stages of the simulation. Effective software frameworks reduce the programming burden for the investigators, freeing them to focus more on the science and less on the parallel communication implementation, while maintaining high performance across numerous supercomputer and workstation architectures. This document proposes a strawman framework design for the climate community based on the integration of Cactus, from the relativistic physics community, and UCLA/UCB Distributed Data Broker (DDB) from the climate community. This design is the result of an extensive survey of climate models and frameworks in the climate community as well as frameworks from many other scientific communities. The design addresses fundamental development and runtime needs using Cactus, a framework with interfaces for FORTRAN and C-based languages, and high-performance model communication needs using DDB. This document also specifically explores object-oriented design issues in the context of climate modeling as well as climate modeling issues in terms of object-oriented design.Talbot, Bryan and Zhou, Shu-Jia and Higgins, GlennGoddard Space Flight CenterSOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CLIMATE MODELS; DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ARCHITECTURE (COMPUTERS); DATA INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; FORTRAN; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); RUN TIME (COMPUTERS)
Author : Ramage
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 1999-07-01
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ISBN : 9780205311569
Author : John Brockman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 1996-05-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0684823446
This eye-opening look at the intellectual culture of today--in which science, not literature or philosophy, takes center stage in the debate over human nature and the nature of the universe--is certain to spark fervent intellectual debate.
Author : Sam Bleakley
Publisher : Alison Hodge Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780906720806
Professional longboarder Sam Bleakley details a decade of extreme global surf travel.
Author : Thomas W. Hertel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319226622
This book explores the fundamental determinants of long term changes in agricultural land use and the associated implications for environmental and food security. The book is designed around the idea that each chapter focuses on one driver, or underlying determinant, of land use change at global scale. It starts with key factors which have been influential in the past, such as growth population, incomes and agricultural productivity, thereafter turning to new drivers such as biofuels, climate change and demand for environmental services. Specialized topics include food security outcomes, projections of future agricultural prices, greenhouse gas emissions, the role of globalization and market integration. The book draws heavily on the emerging body of literature on these topics, summarizes key findings and organizes these within a unifying economic framework.
Author : Sam Bleakley
Publisher : Alison Hodge Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780906720851
Sam Bleakley and the surf EXPLORE team take us on a roller coaster ride through Gabon, India, Vietnam, Algeria, China and Haiti, drumming up a tropical beat. Combining 'Deep Travel', John Callahan's incredible photography and Sam's performance writing, they capture the spirit of these turbulent coast scapes, blood racing, running on salt water fuel. The wide belt around the Equator - the tropics - has become an alluring path for travel, but a region often steeped in war and environmental disasters. Sam and surf EXPLORE go off the regular route, carving a niche, collaborating with locals, documenting the occasion poetically and with precision. Where 'waves transform from green glass to white foam, the surfboard is the frozen double of that transition - a rainbow bridge that allows you to step in the blink of an eye from inertia to adrenaline-fuelled ecstasy to the fear of the water-wrestling hold-down.' The paradoxical red hot and cool blue of surfing, and the often icy logic of preparation for challenging travel, form a matrix from which springs a distinctive kind of writing as performance. By turns, surf EXPLORE gather their wits at the cross roads where 'lovers part and souls get taken by the lost high way, lured down the wrong route.'
Author : Rigby
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9781418914219
Author : John Brockman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0062326783
A radical, experimental work that challenges the boundaries of poetry, philosophy, and science. First published in 1969, this new and expanded edition of John Brockman’s first book, By The Late John Brockman, also includes the full text of 37 (1971), and Afterwords (1973). This edition features a new foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of the Serpentine Gallery and author of Ways of Curating.
Author : Scott Newstok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 0691227691
"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--
