Scientific Programming and Computer Architecture

• Main Author: Viswanath, Divakar (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2017
• Series: Scientific and Engineering Computation
• Subjects: Mobile & handheld device programming / Apps programming; Computer science; Information architecture; C; C++; programming languages; processor; memory; network; high performance computing; computer science; engineering; super computing
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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...