The field of computer vision has become an important part of today's society, supporting crucial applications in the medical, manufacturing, military intelligence and surveillance domains. Many computer vision tasks can be divided into fundamental steps: image acquisition, pre-p…
Understanding others is a deeply human urge basic in our existential quest. It requires knowing where someone has come from and where they sit amongst peers. Phylogenetic analysis and genome wide association studies seek to tell us where we’ve come from and where we are relative…
With this book you'll learn to para llel and distributed computing, explore parallelism in Python, distributed application with Celery, Python in the Cloud, Python on an HPC cluster.
Scientific and Engineering Computation Series List A guide to advanced features of MPI, reflecting the latest version of the MPI standard, that takes an example-driven, tutorial approach
Computing systems have a tremendous positive impact on everyday life, from the Internet to mobile devices. However, they are facing a once-in-a-generation technical challenge, as the relentless half-century increase in processor speed for improving performance has come to an end…
Background -- Hardware architecture -- Software architecture -- Software environment -- Memory -- Streams and events -- Kernel execution -- Streaming multiprocessors -- Multiple GPUs -- Texturing -- Streaming workloads -- Reduction -- Scan -- N-body -- Image processing : normali…